Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss
of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that …

Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate
and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of …

Ocean warming under climate change threatens coral reefs directly, through fatal heat stress
to corals and indirectly, by boosting the energy of cyclones that cause coral destruction and …

Ecological restoration is widely practiced as a means of rehabilitating ecosystems and
habitats that have been degraded or impaired through human use or other causes …

Climate‐driven alterations to disturbance regimes are increasingly disrupting patterns of
recovery in many biomes. Here, we examine the impact of disturbance and subsequent level …

Managing coral reefs for resilience to climate change is a popular concept but has been
difficult to implement because the empirical scientific evidence has either not been …

Coral reef ecosystems worldwide are under pressure from chronic and acute stressors that
threaten their continued existence. Most obvious among changes to reefs is loss of hard …

Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by various types of disturbances, and their recovery
is challenged by accelerating, human-induced environmental changes. Recurrent …

This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social,
political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through …