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New protection initiatives announced for coral reefs [PDF]

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2000
Off the coasts of some of the South Pacific's most idyllic‐sounding atolls, Austin Bowden‐Kerby has seen first‐hand the heavy damage to coral reefs from dynamite and cyanide fishing. For instance, while snorkeling near Chuuk, an island in Micronesia, he has observed craters and rubble beds of coral, which locals have told him date to World War II ...
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The Adaptive Capacity of Corals Based on the Health Level to Estimate the Carrying Capacity of the Marine Ecotourism in Enggano Island

Omni-Akuatika, 2018
Enggano Island is one of the outermost islands of Indonesia. Among the recoverable resources that exist in Enggano Island are coral reef ecosystems.
Yar Johan, Fredinan Yulianda, Rahmat Kurnia, Ismudi Muchsin   +3 more
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(Bio)sensors applied to coral reefs’ health monitoring: a critical overview

Green Analytical Chemistry, 2023
Biosensor technology represents a novel tool with several areas of application, such as biomedical and physicochemical ones. In this review, we considered this technology's application to physiological analyses in the area of biological response to ...
Lucia Gastoldi, Stefano Cinti
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Coral Reef Bleaching under Climate Change: Prediction Modeling and Machine Learning

Sustainability, 2022
The coral reefs are important ecosystems to protect underwater life and coastal areas. It is also a natural attraction that attracts many tourists to eco-tourism under the sea.
Nathaphon Boonnam, Tanatpong Udomchaipitak, S. Puttinaovarat, T. Chaichana, V. Boonjing, Jirapond Muangprathub   +5 more
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Coral Reefs and the Global Network of Marine Protected Areas

Science, 2006
Existing marine reserves are largely ineffective and as a whole remain insufficient for the protection of coral reef diversity.
J. E. N. Veron, Kevin J. Gaston, Serge Andréfouët, Mark J. Costello, Ransom A. Myers, Christine Kranenburg, Audrey Rollo, Camilo Mora, Camilo Mora   +8 more
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Additive diversity partitioning of fish in a Caribbean coral reef undergoing shift transition. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Shift transitions in dominance on coral reefs from hard coral cover to fleshy macroalgae are having negative effects on Caribbean coral reef communities. Data on spatiotemporal changes in biodiversity during these modifications are important for decision
Gilberto Acosta-González, Fabián A Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Roberto C Hernández-Landa, Jesús E Arias-González   +3 more
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REAL-TIME MARINE ANIMAL DETECTION USING YOLO-BASED DEEP LEARNING NETWORKS IN THE CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
. In recent years, with the advancement of marine resources and environment research, the ecological functions of reef-building coral reef ecosystems distributed in warm shallow waters of the ocean are being continuously discovered and valued by people ...
J. Zhong, Meng Li, J. Qin, Y. Cui, K. Yang, H. Zhang   +5 more
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Reduce pollution, establish protected areas, manage fisheries properly? How to protect coral reefs based on carbon trading

Frontiers in Marine Science
As coral reefs around the world have suffered serious damage, it is necessary to protect them. Common modes of coral reef protection include reducing pollution, setting up reserves and managing fisheries rationally.
Yuntao Bai, Ruidi Hu, Lan Wang, Delong Li   +3 more
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Habitat and Marine Reserve Status Drive Reef Fish Biomass and Functional Diversity in the Largest South Atlantic Coral Reef System (Abrolhos, Brazil)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The effects of fishing have been documented across coral reefs worldwide. No-take marine reserves do not only act as a conservation tool but also allow an opportunity to study impacts of fishing, by acting as control sites.
F. Rolim, T. Langlois, Fabio S. Motta, Guilherme Castro, E. Lester, M. L. Abieri, O. B. F. Gadig, R. Moura   +7 more
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Soundscape of protected and unprotected tropical Atlantic coastal coral reefs

Scientia Marina, 2021
Behavioural patterns and distributions of crustaceans, fish and mammals can be inferred from acoustic recordings of the extremely noisy marine acoustic environment. In this study, we determined the soundscape of protected and non-protected marine areas between January and April 2016.
Alfredo Borie, Sergio Magalhães Rezende, Beatrice Padovani Ferreira, Mauro Maida, Craig Radford, Paulo Travassos   +5 more
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