by Cherie Wagner | Nov 30, 2020
As climate change continues to be a leading cause of coral reef decline across the globe, reef managers increasingly are seeking management and conservation actions that can help them prioritize and enhance reef resilience. Resilience assessments are one tool...
by Cherie Wagner | Nov 30, 2020
Although coral restoration is a popular method of management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems, its ecological basis is under-developed. For example, in addition to well-known restoration methods such as outplanting nursery-raised corals, managers and...
by Cherie Wagner | Nov 30, 2020
Although the concept of resilience is widely used in coral reef science and management, the evaluation of ecosystem resilience has been challenging because it can be difficult to quantify and assess. Scientists have proposed the resilience-based management (RBM)...
by Cherie Wagner | Jun 11, 2020
Coral reef ecosystems play an important role both in promoting marine biodiversity and supporting the communities that depend on them. This study examines the conditions in which multiple social and ecological goals, such as the biomass of fisheries, parrotfish...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 6, 2019
This article reviews the potential of resilience-based management (RBM) to support coral reef resilience into the future and highlights opportunities and challenges faced by RBM management strategies. The authors describe RBM as “Using knowledge of current and future...
by Liz Shaver | May 22, 2019
Effective herbivore management is a tool that managers can use to help maintain coral reef resilience in the face of global stressors like coral bleaching events. One way to manage herbivores is to establish networks of herbivore management areas (HMAs), which...
by Liz Shaver | May 22, 2019
Through this study, a literature review was conducted to evaluate and rank twelve potential management interventions to promote coral reef recovery following a coral bleaching event, using Hawai‘i as a case study. This effort aimed to identify effective management...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Recent large-scale analyses suggest that local management actions may not protect coral reefs from climate change, yet most local threat-reduction strategies have not been tested experimentally. We show that removing coral predators is a common local action...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: As global ocean change progresses, reef-building corals and their early life history stages will rely on physiological plasticity to tolerate new environmental conditions. Larvae from brooding coral species contain algal symbionts upon release, which assist...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Active restoration initiatives are increasingly considered in natural resource management. Laboratory‐reared coral larvae and recruits have been proposed for stock production but it is unknown if their use impacts subsequent symbiosis once transplanted to...
by Liz Shaver | Jun 28, 2018
Abstract: Sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to elevate water depths above coral reefs and to increase coastal wave exposure as ecological degradation limits vertical reef growth, but projections lack data on interactions between local rates of reef growth and sea...
