4 results

The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity  Atmosphere and Climate

Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that support of system resilience is a viable reef management strategy.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 11 p

Killing rats could save coral reefs

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Biodiversity

Short website news article about rat eradication on Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and how bird populations increase without rat predation increasing nutrients from bird guano into the coral reefs; cites letter article in Springer Nature - Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning inthe absence of invasive rats, Nichaolas A.J. Graham, Shaun K. Wilson, Peter Carr, Andrew S. Hoey, Simon Jennings, M. Aaron MacNeil https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0202-3

Large-scale, multidirectional larval connectivity among coral reef fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef marine park.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity

Larval dispersal is the key process by which populations of most marine fishes and invertebrates are connected and replenished.

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 16 p

Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities.

 SPREP Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN)
 Land  Coastal and Marine  Biodiversity  Atmosphere and Climate

With marine biodiversity declining globally at accelerating rates, maximising the effectiveness of conservation has become a key goal for local, national and international regulators

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Call Number: [EL]

Physical Description: 10 p