Sensitivity of marine protected area network connectivity to atmospheric variability
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 15027844
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsos.160494
- Title of journal
- Royal Society Open Science
- Article number
- 160494
- First page
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- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 11
- ISSN
- 2054-5703
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 29
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- An oceanography/computer science collaboration, partly funded by NERC's INSITE programme to inform de-commissioning of North Sea infrastructure. Addressing how to select marine sites to protect for species sustainability, (i) ocean-science tools were used in a novel way - particle-tracking runs treated as Monte Carlo simulations rather than averaged, and (ii) network analysis techniques were crafted, enabling identification of sites that remain critical across a range of ocean-current scenarios. Demonstrates clearly, for the first time, how marine protection strategies are vulnerable to changes in ocean circulation; cited in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Report 2019 (https://report.ipcc.ch/srocc/)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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