Biodiversity conservation should focus on no-take Marine Reserves: 94% of Marine Protected Areas allow fishing.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2015-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.011PMID 26321055
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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