"Most people now recognize that coral reefs worldwide are in decline, and fingers are commonly pointed at algae as the culprit. The authors have had the good fortune to study pristine reefs at more than 50 uninhabited islands in the Pacific Ocean. Althoug...
Bleaching and reef community change in Jamaica: 1951-1991
"Coral reefs have deteriorated at an accelerating pace during 40 years of ecoiogical study at 11 sites around Jamaica. This is due to a variety of causes, whose effects are analyzed by comparing sites with known and divergent histories of environmental ch...
Integrated Coral Reef Ecosystem Mapping and Monitoring to Support Living Marine Resource Management.
The Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Team has been conducting biogeographic mapping, research, and monitoring of tropical marine ecosystems to quantify reef fish habitat affinities and define spatial and temporal utilization of be...
Determining fish habitat utilization patterns and the efficacy of marine protected areas in Hawaii via integrated coral reef ecosystem mapping and monitoring
Over the past four decades, Hawaii has developed a network of 11 Marine Life Conservation Districts (MLCDs) to conserve and replenish marine resources around the state. Initially established to provide opportunities for public interaction with the marine ...
Integrating in situ, satellite and other data sources for marine protected area decision support and coral reef research
Consistent with NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and Coral Reef Ecosystem Integrated Observing System (CREIOS) programs, the coral research and monitoring program at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) has dev...
Ontogenetic variation of a coral reef fish in an MPA network in Hawaii: A multi-scale remote sensing and in-situ approach
Several studies have highlighted the role of habitat as an important component in structuring reef fish assemblages. Understanding the scale at which habitat characteristics influence spatial abundance and distribution of reef fish is important because pr...
Towards an understanding of the role of temperature in patterns of coral disease prevalence on the Great Barrier Reef
Diseases of coral reef organisms have been escalating globally in the past few decades and, while climate change is speculated to underlie these patterns, the role of temperature in the increasing incidence of coral disease is difficult to separate from a...
Climate change and carbon threats to coral reefs: National meteorological and ocean services as sentinels
"Some of the linkages between atmospheric CO2 and the physical and chemical processes that it drives are summarized: climate change, increased sea surface temperatures, ocean acidification, tropical cyclone frequency/severity, and sea level rise. Links be...
"Large-scale climate patterns influenced temperature and weather patterns around the globe in 2011. In particular, a moderate-to-strong La Nina at the beginning of the year dissipated during boreal spring but reemerged during fall. The phenomenon contribu...
Algae-dominated reefs