New Paper: Dispersal Patterns of Coastal Fish: Implications for Designing Networks of Marine Protected Areas

A new paper involving Environment Institute member Bronwyn Gillanders, Director of the Marine Biology Program, as well as Antonio Di Franco, Giuseppe De Benedetto, Antonio Pennetta, Paolo Guidetti all from the University of Salento, Italy and Giulio A. De Leo from the University of Parma, Italy has recently been published in the Journal PLoS ONE.

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The paper is titled 'Dispersal Patterns of Coastal Fish: Implications for Designing Networks of Marine Protected Areas', this study provides some of the first quantitative evidence of dispersal at both larval and post-settlement stages of a key species in Mediterranean rocky reefs.

Read and dowload the paper to find out more and read about the findings.