Functional diversity represents the range of things that organisms "do" in communities that provide key ecosystem processes (e.g., herbivory, habitat provisioning), necessary to maintain healthy reef and sustainable nearshore fisheries. Species withi...

This project aims to assess temporal trends in benthic and reef-fish communities of nearshore coral reefs across the Mariana Islands following the multiple warming events that recently occurred throughout the region. Specifically, this project will synthe...