title: Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes.
abstract: Although coral reefs support the largest concentrations of marine biodiversity worldwide, the extent to which the global system of marine-protected areas (MPAs) represents individual species and the breadth of evolutionary history across the Tree of Life has never been quantified. Here we show that only 5.7% of scleractinian coral species and 21.7% of labrid fish species reach the minimum protection target of 10% of their geographic ranges within MPAs. We also estimate that the current global MPA system secures only 1.7% of the Tree of Life for corals, and 17.6% for fishes. Regionally, the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific show the greatest deficit of protection for corals while for fishes this deficit is located primarily in the Western Indian Ocean and in the Central Pacific. Our results call for a global coordinated expansion of current conservation efforts to fully secure the Tree of Life on coral reefs.
authors.affiliation: UMR 9190 MARBEC, IRD-CNRS-IFREMER-UM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier 34095, France.|Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mouillot
authors.affiliation: CRIOBE, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Labex 'Corail', University of Perpignan, Perpignan 66860, France.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Parravicini
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Bellwood
authors.affiliation: UMR 9190 MARBEC, IRD-CNRS-IFREMER-UM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier 34095, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leprieur
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology &Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem St, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA.
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Cowman
authors.affiliation: Département de biologie, chimie et géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 300 Allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, Canada G5L 3A1.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Albouy
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine (LECA), Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble F-38000, France.|Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine (LECA), CNRS, Grenoble F-38000, France.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Thuiller
authors.affiliation: UMR 9190 MARBEC, IRD-CNRS-IFREMER-UM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier 34095, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guilhaumon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics*; D014329:Tropical Climate