Search Results - "Côté, Isabelle M."

Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies by Darling, Emily S, Côté, Isabelle M

“…There is increasing concern that multiple drivers of ecological change will interact synergistically to accelerate biodiversity loss. However, the prevalence…”
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Invasive lionfish drive Atlantic coral reef fish declines by Green, Stephanie J, Akins, John L, Maljković, Aleksandra, Côté, Isabelle M

“…Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) have spread swiftly across the Western Atlantic, producing a marine predator invasion of unparalleled…”
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Evaluating life‐history strategies of reef corals from species traits by Darling, Emily S., Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Oliver, Thomas A., McClanahan, Timothy R., Côté, Isabelle M.

“…Classifying the biological traits of organisms can test conceptual frameworks of life‐history strategies and allow for predictions of how different species may…”
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Climate Change, Coral Loss, and the Curious Case of the Parrotfish Paradigm: Why Don't Marine Protected Areas Improve Reef Resilience? by Bruno, John F, Côté, Isabelle M, Toth, Lauren T

“…Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local…”
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Life histories predict coral community disassembly under multiple stressors by Darling, Emily S., McClanahan, Timothy R., Côté, Isabelle M.

“…Climate change is reshaping biological communities against a background of existing human pressure. Evaluating the impacts of multiple stressors on community…”
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Effects of marine reserve age on fish populations: a global meta-analysis by Molloy, Philip P, McLean, Ian B, Côté, Isabelle M

“…1. Marine reserves are widely used for conservation and fisheries management. However, there is debate surrounding the speed of population recovery inside…”
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Predatory fish invaders: Insights from Indo-Pacific lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean by Côté, Isabelle M., Green, Stephanie J., Hixon, Mark A.

“…•Predatory Indo-Pacific lionfish have invaded marine habitats of the western Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.•Their geographic spread has been rapid…”
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Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? by Côté, Isabelle M., Darling, Emily S.

“…There have been strong calls for scientists to share their discoveries with society. Some scientists have heeded these calls through social media platforms…”
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Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity by Brandl, Simon J, Rasher, Douglas B, Côté, Isabelle M, Casey, Jordan M, Darling, Emily S, Lefcheck, Jonathan S, Duffy, J Emmett

“…Coral reefs are in global decline. Reversing this trend is a primary management objective but doing so depends on understanding what keeps reefs in desirable…”
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Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity by Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Dulvy, Nicholas K., Gill, Jennifer A., Côté, Isabelle M., Watkinson, Andrew R.

“…corals, the mass mortality of the grazing urchin…”
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Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale by Turschwell, Mischa P., Connolly, Rod M., Dunic, Jillian C., Sievers, Michael, Buelow, Christina A., Pearson, Ryan M., Tulloch, Vivitskaia J. D., Côté, Isabelle M., Unsworth, Richard K. F., Collier, Catherine J., Brown, Christopher J.

“…Seagrass meadows are threatened by multiple pressures, jeopardizing the many benefits they provide to humanity and biodiversity, including climate regulation…”
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A 2017 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity by Sutherland, William J., Barnard, Phoebe, Broad, Steven, Clout, Mick, Connor, Ben, Côté, Isabelle M., Dicks, Lynn V., Doran, Helen, Entwistle, Abigail C., Fleishman, Erica, Fox, Marie, Gaston, Kevin J., Gibbons, David W., Jiang, Zhigang, Keim, Brandon, Lickorish, Fiona A., Markillie, Paul, Monk, Kathryn A., Pearce-Higgins, James W., Peck, Lloyd S., Pretty, Jules, Spalding, Mark D., Tonneijck, Femke H., Wintle, Bonnie C., Ockendon, Nancy

“…We present the results of our eighth annual horizon scan of emerging issues likely to affect global biological diversity, the environment, and conservation…”
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Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology by Watkins, Hannah V., Yan, Helen F., Dunic, Jillian C., Côté, Isabelle M.

“…Nonnative marine species are increasingly recognized as a threat to the world's oceans, yet are poorly understood relative to their terrestrial and freshwater…”
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Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing by Sumaila, U. Rashid, Lam, Vicky W. Y., Miller, Dana D., Teh, Louise, Watson, Reg A., Zeller, Dirk, Cheung, William W. L., Côté, Isabelle M., Rogers, Alex D., Roberts, Callum, Sala, Enric, Pauly, Daniel

“…Fishing takes place in the high seas and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of maritime countries. Closing the former to fishing has recently been proposed in the…”
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Management thresholds shift under the influence of multiple stressors: Eelgrass meadows as a case study by Dunic, Jillian C., Côté, Isabelle M.

“…As human activities increase in intensity and extent, ecosystems face growing threats from multiple stressors. Successful management requires identifying…”
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Simplification of Caribbean reef-fish assemblages over decades of coral reef degradation by Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Paddack, Michelle J, Collen, Ben, Robertson, D Ross, Côté, Isabelle M

“…Caribbean coral reefs are becoming structurally simpler, largely due to human impacts. The consequences of this trend for reef-associated communities are…”
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A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2010 by Sutherland, William J., Clout, Mick, Côté, Isabelle M., Daszak, Peter, Depledge, Michael H., Fellman, Liz, Fleishman, Erica, Garthwaite, Rachel, Gibbons, David W., De Lurio, Jennifer, Impey, Andrew J., Lickorish, Fiona, Lindenmayer, David, Madgwick, Jane, Margerison, Ceri, Maynard, Trevor, Peck, Lloyd S., Pretty, Jules, Prior, Stephanie, Redford, Kent H., Scharlemann, Jörn P.W., Spalding, Mark, Watkinson, Andrew R.

“…Horizon scanning identifies emerging issues in a given field sufficiently early to conduct research to inform policy and practice. Our group of horizon…”
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Linking removal targets to the ecological effects of invaders: a predictive model and field test by Green, Stephanie J., Dulvy, Nicholas K., Brooks, Annabelle M. L., Akins, John L., Cooper, Andrew B., Miller, Skylar, Côté, Isabelle M.

“…Species invasions have a range of negative effects on recipient ecosystems, and many occur at a scale and magnitude that preclude complete eradication. When…”
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Evidence for a trophic cascade on rocky reefs following sea star mass mortality in British Columbia by Schultz, Jessica A, Cloutier, Ryan N, Côté, Isabelle M

“…Echinoderm population collapses, driven by disease outbreaks and climatic events, may be important drivers of population dynamics, ecological shifts and…”
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Region-wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story by ALVAREZ-FILIP, LORENZO, CÔTÉ, ISABELLE M, GILL, JENNIFER A, WATKINSON, ANDREW R, DULVY, NICHOLAS K

“…The architectural complexity of coral reefs is largely generated by reef-building corals, yet the effects of current regional-scale declines in coral cover on…”
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