Downscaled projections of Caribbean coral bleaching that can inform conservation planning
"Projections of climate change impacts on coral reefs produced at the coarse resolution (about 1) of Global Climate Models (GCMs) have informed debate but have not helped target local management actions. Here, projections of the onset of annual coral blea...
Patterns of scale-dependency and the influence of map resolution on the seascape ecology of reef fish
"Detection and perception of ecological relationships between biota and their surrounding habitats is sensitive to analysis scale and resolution of habitat data. We measured strength of univariate linear correlations between reef fish and seascape variabl...
American Samoa collection: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter maps
"This collection of maps was made in 2006 by CRED. They include multibeam bathymetry and backscatter collected in January to March of 2004 and February to March of 2006 from the NOAA Ship Hiialakai and the R/V AHI. Details on the surveys, platforms and pr...
"This collection of maps was made in 2007 by PIBHMC. It includes multibeam bathymetry, backscatter, and optical validation collected between 2001 and 2006 from the NOAA survey launch R/V Acoustic Habitat Investigator (AHI), NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, NO...
Marianas collection: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter maps, volume 1
"This collection of maps was made in 2007 by CRED. They include multibeam bathymetry and backscatter collected in August and September of 2003 from the NOAA survey launch R/V Acoustic Habitat Investigator (AHI), supported by the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sett...
Quantifying seascape structure: extending terrestrial spatial pattern metrics to the marine realm
"Spatial pattern metrics have routinely been applied to characterize and quantify structural features of terrestrial landscapes and have demonstrated great utility in landscape ecology and conservation planning. The important role of spatial structure in ...
Species richness on coral reefs and the pursuit of convergent global estimates
"Global species richness, whether estimated by taxon, habitat, or ecosystem, is a key biodiversity metric. Yet, despite the global importance of biodiversity and increasing threats to it, we are no better able to estimate global species richness now than ...
Widespread impacts of land-based source pollution on Southwestern Puerto Rican coral reefs. Appendix A9 to Cabo Rojo Community Watershed Action Plan for Water Quality and Coral Reefs
"Local coral reef ecosystems across the southwestern Puerto Rico shelf still represent a critical natural resource with invaluable socio-economic significance. However, they were showing unequivocal signs of decline mostly as a result of chronic land-base...
Cabo Rojo community watershed action plan for water quality and coral reefs
"This watershed plan represents the culmination of the watershed planning process in Cabo Rojo. The goal of the watershed plan is to help chart a course for the improvement of water quality and coral reefs and to serve the goals of the citizens of the Cab...
Corals and Climate Adaptation Planning (CCAP) Stakeholder Workshop report
"A 2-day stakeholder workshop to test a draft CCAP framework was convened in Honolulu, HI on July 8-10, 2014. This project is a collaborative effort under the auspices of the Climate Change Working Group of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force to explore framew...
Downscaled projections of Caribbean coral bleaching that can inform conservation planning
"Local coral reef ecosystems across the southwestern Puerto Rico shelf still represent a critical natural resource with invaluable socio-economic significance. However, they were showing unequivocal signs of decline mostly as a result of chronic land-base...
"This watershed plan represents the culmination of the watershed planning process in Cabo Rojo. The goal of the watershed plan is to help chart a course for the improvement of water quality and coral reefs and to serve the goals of the citizens of the Cab...
"A 2-day stakeholder workshop to test a draft CCAP framework was convened in Honolulu, HI on July 8-10, 2014. This project is a collaborative effort under the auspices of the Climate Change Working Group of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force to explore framew...