Assessment of the utility of underwater hyperspectral imaging for surveying and monitoring coral reef ecosystems

MS Mills, M Ungermann, G Rigot, J den Haan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Technological innovations that improve the speed, scale, reproducibility, and accuracy of
monitoring surveys will allow for a better understanding of the global decline in tropical reef …

Successive bleaching events cause mass coral mortality in Guam, Micronesia

LJ Raymundo, D Burdick, WC Hoot, RM Miller, V Brown… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
The reefs of Guam, a high island in the Western Pacific, were impacted by an
unprecedented succession of extreme environmental events beginning in 2013. Elevated …

Small tropical islands as hotspots of crustose calcifying red algal diversity and endemism

MS Mills, ME Deinhart, MN Heagy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the tropics, crustose calcifying red algae (Corallinophycidae and Peyssonneliales; CCRA)
are dominant and important reef builders that serve a suite of ecological functions affecting …

The Role of Maternal Nutrition on Oocyte Size and Quality, with Respect to Early Larval Development in The Coral-Eating Starfish, Acanthaster planci

CF Caballes, MS Pratchett, AM Kerr… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Variation in local environmental conditions can have pronounced effects on the population
structure and dynamics of marine organisms. Previous studies on crown-of-thorns starfish …

Coral reefs in transition: Temporal photoquadrat analyses and validation of underwater hyperspectral imaging for resource-efficient monitoring in Guam

MS Mills, M Ungermann, G Rigot, J den Haan, JX Leon… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The island of Guam in the west Pacific has seen a significant decrease in coral cover since
2013. Lafac Bay, a marine protected area in northeast Guam, served as a reference site for …

Structural Complexity of Coral Reefs in Guam, Mariana Islands

MS Mills, T Schils, AD Olds, JX Leon - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The complexity of tropical reef habitats affects the occurrence and diversity of the organisms
residing in these ecosystems. Quantifying this complexity is important to better understand …

Environmental factors affecting large-bodied coral reef fish assemblages in the Mariana Archipelago

BL Richards, ID Williams, OJ Vetter, GJ Williams - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Large-bodied reef fishes represent an economically and ecologically important segment of
the coral reef fish assemblage. Many of these individuals supply the bulk of the reproductive …

Management strategy evaluation applied to coral reef ecosystems in support of ecosystem-based management

M Weijerman, EA Fulton, RE Brainard - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Ecosystem modelling is increasingly used to explore ecosystem-level effects of changing
environmental conditions and management actions. For coral reefs there has been …

Life and death of a sewage treatment plant recorded in a coral skeleton δ15N record

NN Duprey, XT Wang, PD Thompson… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigated the potential of coral skeleton δ 15 N (CS-δ 15 N) records for tracking
anthropogenic-N sources in coral reef ecosystems. We produced a 56 yr-long CS-δ 15 N …

Unprecedented coral bleaching across the Marianas Archipelago

T Reynolds, D Burdick, P Houk, L Raymundo… - Coral Reefs, 2014 - Springer
In 1998, many reefs around the world experienced severe, widespread bleaching and
mortality coinciding with anomalously high sea surface temperatures (SSTs). The Marianas …