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 …

Brazilian coral reefs in a period of global change: A synthesis

ZMAN Leão, RKP Kikuchi, BP Ferreira… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Brazilian coral reefs form structures significantly different from the well-known reef models,
as follows:(i) they have a growth form of mushroom-shaped coral pinnacles called" …

South Atlantic coral reefs are major global warming refugia and less susceptible to bleaching

M Mies, RB Francini-Filho, C Zilberberg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mass coral bleaching has increased in intensity and frequency and has severely impacted
shallow tropical reefs worldwide. Although extensive investigation has been conducted on …

Remote sensing, isotopic composition and metagenomics analyses revealed Doce River ore plume reached the southern Abrolhos Bank Reefs

RB Francini-Filho, MC Cordeiro, CY Omachi… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract On November 5th, 2015, the Fundão dam rupture released> 50 million m 3 of ore
tailings into the Doce River, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The huge volume of mud spread …

A relic coral fauna threatened by global changes and human activities, Eastern Brazil

ZMAN Leão, RKP Kikuchi - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2005 - Elsevier
Coral species composition of drilled cores from emergent bank reefs, and coral cover of the
surface of old and living reefs located along the coast of the state of Bahia, Eastern Brazil …

Shelf morphology as an indicator of sedimentary regimes: A synthesis from a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate shelf on the eastern Brazilian margin

AC Bastos, VS Quaresma, MB Marangoni… - Journal of South …, 2015 - Elsevier
Modern shelf morphology is the result of the interplay between short and long term
sedimentary processes. The relation between rates of sediment supply/carbonate growth …

Structure of marginal coral reef assemblages under different turbidity regime

M Loiola, ICS Cruz, DS Lisboa, E Mariano-Neto… - Marine environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sediment load can influence both the population distribution and structures of coral reef
communities. We investigated whether coral assemblages on inshore and more turbid reefs …

Assessing effects of sediment delivery to coral reefs: A Caribbean watershed perspective

CS Rogers, CE Ramos-Scharrón - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs in the western Atlantic and Caribbean are deteriorating primarily from disease
outbreaks, increasing seawater temperatures, and stress due to land-based sources of …

The ship's propeller rotation threshold for coral reef ecosystems based on sediment rate indicators: Literature review with bibliometric analysis and experiments

A Kadir, I Istadi, A Subagio, W Waluyo… - Indonesian Journal of …, 2024 - ejournal.kjpupi.id
The rotation of ship propellers produces water flows that can trigger erosion and
resuspension of sediment on the seabed, which damages coral reef habitats. The causal …

The role of unpaved roads as active source areas of precipitation excess in small watersheds drained by ephemeral streams in the Northeastern Caribbean

CE Ramos-Scharrón, MC LaFevor - Journal of Hydrology, 2016 - Elsevier
Quantitative understanding of the impacts of land development on runoff generation is vital
for managing aquatic habitats. Although unpaved roads are broadly recognized as …