Coral reefs are in decline worldwide and monitoring activities are important for assessing
the impact of disturbance on reefs and tracking subsequent recovery or decline. Monitoring …

Management of coastal and marine natural resources presents a number of challenges as a
growing global population and a changing climate require us to find better strategies to …

Technical advancements have widened the limits of remote sensing in map** shallow
water benthic habitats and bathymetry over the last decades. On the other hand, the needs …

Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem
services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures …

A mechanistic understanding of organismal movement provides context for existing
biogeographic and ecological patterns and improves our ability to predict changing patterns …

The 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) states with very high certainty that anthropogenic emissions have caused …

Changes and disturbances to water diversity and quality are complex and multi-scale in
space and time. Although in situ methods provide detailed point information on the condition …

Coral reef ecosystems are exposed to a range of environmental forcings that vary on daily to
decadal time scales and across spatial scales spanning from reefs to archipelagos …

This study uses skeletal variations in coral Sr/Ca from three Siderastrea siderea coral
colonies within the Dry Tortugas National Park in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico (24° 42 …

Remote imaging spectroscopy from 400 to 800 nm can use benthic reflectance signatures to
map the composition and condition of shallow water ecosystems. We present a novel …