"The south-western Pacific island countries were largely unaffected by mass coral bleaching during the intense El Nino of 1998, but experienced mass bleaching in 2000 during the subsequent strong La Nina. Nineteen reef locations were surveyed in eight geo...
Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia: A spatial analysis of threats, protection, and vulnerability
The global Reefs at Risk analysis, released by the World Resources Institute in 1998, concluded that over 80% of the coral reefs in Southeast Asia are threatened by human activity. Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia is a more detailed follow-up to the global...
Application of paleoclimatology to coral reef monitoring and management
"The skeletons of reef-building corals are valuable archives of climatic and environmental information. Paleoclimatic data chiefly have been generated in areas most sensitive to global or regional climatic variability. However, these records also provide ...
Spatial distribution of large mobile predators in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Sharks (Carcharhinidae) and jacks (Carangidae) were surveyed by towed divers at the atolls and banks of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) annually from 2000 to 2003. Divers were towed behind a small boat on a 60-m line at depths ranging from 1 to ...
Mass coral bleaching on high-latitude reefs in the Hawaiian Archipelago
"The first mass coral bleaching ever recorded in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), a chain of small islands, atolls, and banks that span ~1800 kilometers over more than five degrees of latitude in the northern part of the Hawaiian Archipela...
Overview of NOAA Coral Reef Watch Program's near-real-time satellite global coral bleaching monitoring activities
"Coral bleaching has been considered as one of the major contributors to the increased worldwide deterioration of coral reef ecosystems being reported over the past few decades. Understandably the need for improved understanding, monitoring, and predictio...
Preliminary data on growth under different light and thermal conditions in branching coral species
"Coral reefs are threatened due to thermal stress caused by global climate change. The higher temperatures lead to coral bleaching which results from the breakdown of the relationship between the coral and their symbiotic algae; this phenomenon is also he...
Status of fishery target species on coral reefs of the Marianas Archipelago
"Large coral reef fish were surveyed throughout the Marianas Archipelago in August- September 2003 to assess their status as fishery targets. Three underwater visual survey methods were used: belt transect (for fish over 20 cm long), stationary point coun...
Mass coral bleaching in the Fiji Islands, 2000