{"id":4528,"date":"2016-01-12T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2016-01-18T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:07:14","slug":"marine-protected-areas-failing-to-protect-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/marine-protected-areas-failing-to-protect-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine protected areas failing to protect history<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4529\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ReefScene-816x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4529\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ReefScene-816x1024-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo Credit: Ed Roberts)\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo Credit: Ed Roberts)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marine protected areas (MPAs) are failing\u00a0to protect the evolutionary diversity of fish\u00a0and corals, according to a new study. The\u00a0researchers conclude that over 7,000\u00a0million years of the evolutionary history of\u00a0corals and 3,586 million years of fish\u00a0evolution is not protected.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers\u00a0studied 450 species of fish,\u00a0which represent important\u00a0components of marine biodiversity, and\u00a0hundreds of species of coral, and\u00a0calculated how much of their geographic\u00a0range is covered by the MPAs.<\/p>\n<p>Marine\u00a0protected areas were designed to\u00a0conserve species diversity rather than\u00a0evolutionary diversity, however the\u00a0authors argue the latter is a crucial\u00a0component of biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms10359\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>David Mouillot,\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier, Montpellier, France<\/h4>\n<h4>Camille Albouy,\u00a0Department of Biology, Chemistry and Geography,\u00a0Universite\u00b4 du Quebec a Rimouski, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine protected areas (MPAs) are failing\u00a0to protect the evolutionary diversity of fish\u00a0and corals, according to a new study. The\u00a0researchers conclude that over 7,000\u00a0million years of the evolutionary history of\u00a0corals and 3,586 million years of fish\u00a0evolution is not protected. Researchers\u00a0studied 450 species of fish,\u00a0which represent important\u00a0components of marine biodiversity, and\u00a0hundreds of species of coral, and\u00a0calculated how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,1445,2485,171,1778,2486,849],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-coral","tag-ecology","tag-fish","tag-marine","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1b2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}