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Biodiversity and spatial management: Simple models of interacting species

Designing marine reserves for interacting species: Insights from theory

The primary goals of marine reserves include protecting biodiversity and ecosystem structure. Therefore, a multispecies approach to designing and monitoring reserve networks is necessary. To gain insight into how the interactions between species in marine communities may affect reserve design, we synthesize marine reserve community models and community models with habitat destruction and fragmentation, and we develop new extensions of existing models.

Predation, competition, and the recovery of overexploited fish stocks in marine reserves

Community interactions alter the management actions necessary to recover overfished species using marine reserves. For example, in communities where a larger species preys on their juveniles' competitors, overfishing of the larger species may cause prey population expansion; subsequent increased competition for the juveniles of the overfished species may impede its recovery within reserves. We explore the implications of such community interactions for reserve design with a model of a subtidal rockfish (genus Sebastes) system from the Northeast Pacific Ocean within a no-take reserve.

River restoration in the Twenty-First Century: Data and experiential knowledge to inform future efforts

Restoring rivers one reach at a time: Results from a survey of U.S. river restoration practitioners

Despite expenditures of more than 1 billion dollars annually, there is little information available about project motivations, actions, and results for the vast majority of river restoration efforts. We performed confidential telephone interviews with 317 restoration project managers from across the United States with the goals of (1) assessing project motivations and the metrics of project evaluation and (2) estimating the proportion of projects that set and meet criteria for ecologically successful river restoration projects.

Freshwater habitat restoration actions in the Pacific Northwest: A decade's investment in habitat improvement

Stream restoration in the Pacific Northwest: Analysis of interviews with project managers

Two decades of river restoration in California: What can we learn?

Systematic postproject appraisals to maximise lessons learned from river restoration projects: Case study of compound channel restoration projects in northern California

Evaluating stream restoration in the Chesapeake Bay watershed through practitioner interviews