The biotic and abiotic assets of the marine environment form the “marine natural capital”
embedded in the global ocean. Marine natural capital provides the flow of “marine …

In recent years, the wealth of technological development revolutionised our ability to collect
data in geosciences. Due to the unprecedented level of detail of these datasets …

High resolution remotely sensed bathymetric data is rapidly increasing in volume, but
analyzing this data requires a mastery of a complex toolchain of disparate software …

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging
as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine …

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 …

Queen snapper (Etelis oculatus) is of interest from an ecological and management
perspective as it is the second most landed finfish species (by total pounds) as determined …

The number and areal extent of marine protected areas worldwide is rapidly increasing as a
result of numerous national targets that aim to see up to 30% of their waters protected by …

High-resolution ecosystem maps increase the efficiency of policy implementation. However,
due to challenges related to both data and methods, such maps of appropriate scale and …

Governments around the world have acknowledged that urgent action is needed to
conserve and restore ecological connectivity to help reverse the decline of biodiversity. In …

The scale dependence of benthic terrain attributes is well-accepted, and multi-scale
methods are increasingly applied for benthic habitat map**. There are, however, multiple …