by reefres | Dec 28, 2022
Disturbance Response and Monitoring program in Action
by reefres | Dec 28, 2022
Detection of a Coral Disease Outbreak in Kauaʻi and Lessons for the Future
by reefres | Aug 31, 2022
Climate Change Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: Promoting Resilient Coastal and Marine Communities
by reefres | Jul 15, 2022
Reef Rescuers: Coral Gardening as an MPA Management Tool
by reefres | Jul 14, 2022
Designing a Robust and Resilient Marine Protected Area Network in Lesser Sunda Ecoregion
by reefres | Jul 14, 2022
At the Water’s Edge (AWE): Enhancing Coastal Resilience
by reefres | Mar 11, 2021
Orange County Groundwater Replenishment
by Cherie Wagner | Jun 11, 2020
Coral reef ecosystems play an important role both in promoting marine biodiversity and supporting the communities that depend on them. This study examines the conditions in which multiple social and ecological goals, such as the biomass of fisheries, parrotfish...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Recent large-scale analyses suggest that local management actions may not protect coral reefs from climate change, yet most local threat-reduction strategies have not been tested experimentally. We show that removing coral predators is a common local action...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: As global ocean change progresses, reef-building corals and their early life history stages will rely on physiological plasticity to tolerate new environmental conditions. Larvae from brooding coral species contain algal symbionts upon release, which assist...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to elevate water depths above coral reefs and to increase coastal wave exposure as ecological degradation limits vertical reef growth, but projections lack data on interactions between local rates of reef growth and sea...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Human activities have led to widespread ecological decline; however, the severity of degradation is spatially heterogeneous due to some locations resisting, escaping, or rebounding from disturbances. We developed a framework for identifying oases within...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 11, 2018
Abstract: Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages. We analyzed bleaching records at 100 globally distributed reef locations from 1980...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 4, 2018
Abstract: Climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances have created an era characterized by the inability of most ecosystems to maintain their original, pristine states, the Anthropocene. Investigating new and innovative strategies that may facilitate ecosystem...
by reefres | May 21, 2018 | News
Last March, The Nature Conservancy brought together 25 women from Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, the U.K., and the U.S. to talk about climate change and how it can affect men, women, and children in different ways. With...
by reefres | May 21, 2018
A new paper highlights the critical role that Pacific Island women are playing in climate adaptation and provides guidance for governments, NGOs, and development agencies on how to incorporate the needs and perspectives of women in climate policies and projects. Based...
by reefres | Feb 22, 2018
Abstract: Coastal oceans are increasingly eutrophic, warm and acidic through the addition of anthropogenic nitrogen and carbon, respectively. Among the most sensitive taxa to these changes are scleractinian corals, which engineer the most biodiverse ecosystems on...
by reefres | Feb 22, 2018
Abstract: The effects of multiple stressors on the early life stages of reef-building corals are poorly understood. Elevated temperature is the main physiological driver of mass coral bleaching events, but increasing evidence suggests that other stressors, including...
by reefres | Feb 22, 2018
Abstract: Mid- to late-Holocene sea-level records from low-latitude regions serve as an important baseline of natural variability in sea level and global ice volume prior to the Anthropocene. Here, we reconstruct a high-resolution sea-level curve encompassing the last...
by reefres | Feb 22, 2018
Abstract: Worldwide, coral reef ecosystems are experiencing increasing pressure from a variety of anthropogenic perturbations including ocean warming and acidification, increased sedimentation, eutrophication, and overfishing, which could shift reefs to a condition of...