Form and function of tropical macroalgal reefs in the Anthropocene

CJ Fulton, RA Abesamis, C Berkström… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical reefs have been subjected to a range of anthropogenic pressures such as global
climate change, overfishing and eutrophication that have raised questions about the …

Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene

AJ Woodhead, CC Hicks, AV Norström… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs underpin a range of ecosystem goods and services that contribute to the well‐
being of millions of people. However, tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene are likely to be …

Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for develo** blue carbon initiatives and payment for …

AP Hejnowicz, H Kennedy, MA Rudd… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass ecosystems provide numerous ecosystem services that support coastal
communities around the world. They sustain abundant marine life as well as commercial …

The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems

NAJ Graham, KL Nash - Coral reefs, 2013 - Springer
The importance of structural complexity in coral reefs has come to the fore with the global
degradation of reef condition; however, the limited scale and replication of many studies …

Evaluating taboo trade-offs in ecosystems services and human well-being

TM Daw, S Coulthard, WWL Cheung, K Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Managing ecosystems for multiple ecosystem services and balancing the well-being of
diverse stakeholders involves different kinds of trade-offs. Often trade-offs involve …

Macroalgal meadow habitats support fish and fisheries in diverse tropical seascapes

CJ Fulton, C Berkström, SK Wilson… - Fish and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Canopy‐forming macroalgae can construct extensive meadow habitats in tropical
seascapes occupied by fishes that span a diversity of taxa, life‐history stages and ecological …

Global significance of seagrass fishery activity

LM Nordlund, RKF Unsworth, M Gullström… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrass meadows support fisheries through provision of nursery areas and trophic
subsidies to adjacent habitats. As shallow coastal habitats, they also provide key fishing …

Accounting for variable recruitment and fishing mortality in length-based stock assessments for data-limited fisheries

MB Rudd, JT Thorson - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
In fisheries with limited capacity for monitoring, it is often easier to collect length
measurements from fishery catch than quantify total catch. Conventional stock assessment …

Human disruption of coral reef trophic structure

NAJ Graham, TR McClanahan, MA MacNeil, SK Wilson… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The distribution of biomass among trophic levels provides a theoretical basis for
understanding energy flow and the hierarchical structure of animal communities. In the …

Performance evaluation of data-limited, length-based stock assessment methods

L Chong, TK Mildenberger, MB Rudd… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Performance evaluation of data-limited, length-based methods is instrumental in
determining and quantifying their accuracy under various scenarios and in providing …