"Eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) coral reefs provide a real-world example of reef growth, development, structure, and function under the high-pCO2, low aragonite saturation state conditions expected for the entire tropical surface ocean with a doubling to ...
This is part of the biennial report on the condition of coral reefs in the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States. It is the scientific baseline for subsequent reports on the health of U.S. coral reef ecosystems that are to be used by NOAA and...
A landscape ecology approach for the study of ecological connectivity across tropical marine seascapes
Connectivity across the seascape is expected to have profound consequences for the behavior, growth, survival, and spatial distribution of marine species. A landscape ecology approach offers great utility for studying ecological connectivity in tropical m...
Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences
"Observations of mass coral bleaching and mortality over the past 4 decades are linked to periods of anomalously warm sea surface temperatures, which have become more frequent as the climate has warmed (Glynn 1991; Hoegh-Guldberg 1999; Donner et al. 2017;...
Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences
"Coral reef slive within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry, and the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Bddemeier and Kinzie 1976; Kleypas et al. 1999; Hoegh-...
Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean
"Obtaining reliable socioeconomic information on small-scale fisheries for use in decision-making at multiple levels of governance remains a challenge for conventional approaches to data gathering, analysis, and interpretation on a global scale. Fisheries...
Remote Sensing and Modeling: Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources
"A new paradigm has emerged for management of coral reefs in an era of changing climate managing for resilience. A fundamental need for such management to be effective is our ability to measure and map coral reef resilience. We review the resilience conce...
Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences
"Coral reefs face a range of serious anthropogenic threats that may significantly alter their ecological composition and reduce their capacity to deliver essential ecosystem services. Human influences such as destructive and overfishing, terrestrial runof...
Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific