bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/422147; this version posted September 19, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Network of small no-take marine reserves reveal greater abundance and 2 body size of fisheries target species 3 4 5 Fernanda A. Rolim1,2*, Tim Langlois3, Pedro F. C. Rodrigues2, Todd Bond3, Fábio S. Motta4, 6 Leonardo M. Neves5, Otto B. F. Gadig2 7 8 9 1 Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Câmpus de Rio Claro. Rio 10 Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. 11 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Laboratório de Pesquisa em Elasmobrânquios, 12 Instituto de Biociências, Câmpus do Litoral Paulista, São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. 13 3 The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western 14 Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. 15 4 Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação 16 Marinha, Instituto do Mar, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. 17 5 Departamento de Ciências do Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro 18 (UFRRJ), Campus Três Rios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 19 20 21 * Corresponding author 22 E-mail:
[email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/422147; this version posted September 19, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.