Global trade and consumer choices: Coral reefs in crisis
"Coral reefs around the world are in crisis. Over 25% have already died or are severely damaged, and another 30% are seriously threatened and may die -- from global warming, overfishing, destructive fishing practices, and unsound coastal development. [1] ...
Geologic setting and ecological functioning of coral reefs in American Samoa
"American Samoa is rich in coral reefs and all islands are more or less fringed by coral reefs. Although structurally not part of the Samoan chain, political American Samoa includes Rose Atoll, a true atoll, and Swains Island. The coral reefs of American ...
Coral recruits to settlement plates at remote locations in the U.S. Pacific
Documenting the density and taxon of coral recruits to settlement plates is a widely used method of quantifying coral recruitment. Four deployments of recruitment plate arrays were made at six locations in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at annual or bi...
US coral reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: History, geology, oceanography, and biology
"Pacific remote island areas (PRIA) are sovereign United States unincorporated and unorganized territories not falling within the jurisdiction of any other US territory or State (GAO 1997; US DOI 2003). There are eight PRIA and all are under the jurisdict...
US coral reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: Status, threats and significance
"This is the second of two chapters on the coral reefs of the five US Line and Phoenix Islands, consisting of Baker, Howland and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, ; and Palmyra Atoll. The previous chapter (Chapter 15, Maragos et al.) covers the history, geolo...
Geology and geomorphology of coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) comprise a portion of the middle of the 6,126 km long Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, considered to be the longest mountain chain in the world Grigg. Located in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian...
Resilience of Great Barrier Reef marine ecosystems and drivers of change
"This chapter focuses on the temporal dynamics, spatial extent and cumulative impacts of current and future drivers of change on Great Barrier Reef water quality, and subsequent impacts on marine ecosystems in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. These inc...
"The Ocean exerts a profound influence as part of the Earth, interacting with its atmosphere,cryosphere, land, and biosphere to produce planetary conditions. It also directly influences human welfare through the provision and transport of food and resourc...
Global trade and consumer choices: Coral reefs in crisis