Land use impacts on coral reef health: A ridge-to-reef perspective

RR Carlson, SA Foo, GP Asner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming

JM Gove, GJ Williams, J Lecky, E Brown, E Conklin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are being fundamentally restructured by local human impacts and
climate-driven marine heatwaves that trigger mass coral bleaching and mortality. Reducing …

Ciguatera mini review: 21st century environmental challenges and the interdisciplinary research efforts rising to meet them

CR Loeffler, L Tartaglione, M Friedemann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Globally, the livelihoods of over a billion people are affected by changes to marine
ecosystems, both structurally and systematically. Resources and ecosystem services …

Parsing human and biophysical drivers of coral reef regimes

JB Jouffray, LM Wedding… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Coral reefs worldwide face unprecedented cumulative anthropogenic effects of interacting
local human pressures, global climate change and distal social processes. Reefs are also …

Mapped coral mortality and refugia in an archipelago-scale marine heat wave

GP Asner, NR Vaughn, RE Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Corals are a major habitat-building life-form on tropical reefs that support a quarter of all
species in the ocean and provide ecosystem services to millions of people. Marine heat …

Large-scale map** of live corals to guide reef conservation

GP Asner, NR Vaughn, J Heckler… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Coral is the life-form that underpins the habitat of most tropical reef ecosystems, thereby
supporting biological diversity throughout the marine realm. Coral reefs are undergoing …

The Moku System: Managing Biocultural Resources for Abundance within Social-Ecological Regions in Hawaiʻi

KB Winter, K Beamer, MB Vaughan, AM Friedlander… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Through research, restoration of agro-ecological sites, and a renaissance of cultural
awareness in Hawaiʻi, there has been a growing recognition of the ingenuity of the …

An assessment of Landsat-8 atmospheric correction schemes and remote sensing reflectance products in coral reefs and coastal turbid waters

J Wei, Z Lee, R Garcia, L Zoffoli, RA Armstrong… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Operational Land Imager (OLI) onboard Landsat-8 satellite can provide remote
sensing reflectance (R rs) of aquatic environments with high spatial resolution (30 m) …

Large floating abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is frequent marine pollution in the Hawaiian Islands and Palmyra Atoll

SJ Royer, RN Corniuk, A McWhirter, HW Lynch IV… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is a major source of marine debris with
significant ecological and economic consequences. We documented the frequency, types …

Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii

B Lin, Y Zeng, GP Asner, DS Wilcove - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are popular for their vibrant biodiversity. By combining web-scraped Instagram
data from tourists and high-resolution live coral cover maps in Hawaii, we find that …