Smith, J. G., et al., (2023). A marine protected area network does not confer community structure resilience to a marine heatwave across coastal ecosystems. Global Change Biology.
The article notes that one of the claims about the benefits of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is that they supposedly provide resilience against climate impacts. The paper evaluated what is probably the largest marine protected area network in the world (in California) and shows no evidence that the MPA network provided any protection against a marine heat wave.
