Evidence of Land Stewardship Impact on the Ocean

Dr. Mark Carr, the SAT lead scientist, published a study called Integrated coastal reserve planning: making the land–sea connection in 2005. Here are his conclusions:

In a nutshell:

• Reserve selection models optimize conservation on land or at sea, without considering the ecological interactions between the two
• Ignoring such interactions could result in reserves failing to achieve their conservation objectives
• Adapting a process-based conceptual model would facilitate integrated planning that transcends current methods
• As a first step toward integrated planning, land-conservation analyses should be extended to account for effects on marine biodiversity

http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/raimondi/publications/carr/Stoms%20et%20al%202005%20Frontiers.pdf