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Baseline coral disease surveys within three marine parks in Sabah, Borneo [PDF]

, 2015
Two of the most significant threats to coral reefs worldwide are bleaching and disease. However, there has been a scarcity of research on coral disease in South-East Asia, despite the high biodiversity and the strong dependence of local communities on ...
Aeby, Anton, Baker, Beeden, Bellwood, Bourne, Bourne, Brierley, Bruckner, Bruno, Bruno, Bruno, Burke, Burke, Burke, Bythell, Bythell, Comley, Connell, Croquer, Croquer, Dalton, Dinsdale, Doney, Fabricius, Francini-Filho, Gardner, Goldberg, Haapkyl, Harvell, Harvell, Harvell, Heron, Hoegh-Guldberg, Jakobsen, Kaczmarsky, Kaczmarsky, Knowlton, Koch, Lamb, Lindop, Miller, Miller, Muller, NOAA, Nyström, Palmer, Palmer, Pratchett, Raymundo, Reshef, Richardson, Ritchie, Ruiz-Morenol, Sakari, Sutherland, Sutherland, Sweet, Venables, Veron, Veron, Weil, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Willis, Wood, Wood, WRI   +67 more
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Remotely sensing harmful algal blooms in the Red Sea.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are of global concern, as their presence is often associated with socio-economic and environmental issues including impacts on public health, aquaculture and fisheries.
Elamurugu Alias Gokul, Dionysios E Raitsos, John A Gittings, Abdulsalam Alkawri, Ibrahim Hoteit   +4 more
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Toward a spatialized index of the “benthic ecological state” using a new Coral Reef Rapid Assessment Method (CORRAM): case study at Reunion Island

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
The development of a spatial index that can be used to represent the benthic ecological state of coral reefs is essential for guiding public conservation policies. We propose the spatialization of a new index of “benthic ecological state” using the Coral
L. Broudic, M. Pinault, R. Claud, J.B. Nicet, J. Wickel, T. Bajjouk, T. Rungassamy, L. Bigot, N. Nikolic, E. Crochelet, M. Thibault, C. Maze, B. Bergerot   +12 more
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Designing for complexity and uncertainty – policy instruments for complex environmental issues

Policy Design and Practice
This paper explores the difficulties of designing effective policies to address complex environmental policy challenges under conditions of uncertainty.
Brian W. Head
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Review of SCUBA Diving Impacts and Implication for Coral Reefs Conservation and Tourism Management

, 2014
Dive tourism has become important in term of magnitude and significantly contributes to regional economies. Nevertheless, in the absence of proper controls and enforcement, unplanned tourism growth has caused environmental degradation which undermines ...
S. Abidin, B. Mohamed
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Charge‐Induced Morphing Gels for Bioinspired Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel electroactive actuation mechanism that enables the gel material to generate substantial and reversible shape‐changing while preserving topological and isochoric (volumetric) equivalence. The resultant morphing behaviors can mimic the movements of muscle‐driven organelles in nature, including cilia‐like beating and ...
Ciqun Xu, Saba Firouznia, Charl F. J. Faul, Majid Taghavi, Jonathan Rossiter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmotic, Aquatic. Exploring the potential of computational design in the preservation of aquatic ecotones [PDF]

, 2018
This paper looks at the possible role of computational design ecologically in the fight against the loss of the aquatic Ecotone. As climate change keeps altering all the natural aspects of our planet, and as our kind continues to sabotage its ecologies ...
Mohanna, Aya
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Region-wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story? [PDF]

, 2010
The architectural complexity of coral reefs is largely generated by reef-building corals, yet the effects of current regional-scale declines in coral cover on reef complexity are poorly understood.
Alvarez-Filip, Alvarez-Filip, Aronson, Aronson, Aronson, Bellwood, Benjamini, Briggs, Bruno, Bruno, Bruno, Cade, Carpenter, Chittaro, Côté, Côté, Côté, Diaz, Eakin, Edmunds, Ellison, Gardner, Gardner, Glynn, Graham, Graham, Green, Halford, Hatcher, Hughes, Hughes, Idjadi, Jones, Knight, Koenker, Kuffner, Lugo-Fernandez, Molloy, Mora, Mosqueira, Mumby, Paddack, Pandolfi, Pratchett, R, Rosenberg, Schutte, Sheppard, Sheppard, Szmant, Wilson, Wilson   +51 more
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Soft Robotic Snake with Tunable Undulatory Gait for Efficient Underwater Locomotion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study designs an underwater soft snake robot using 3D‐printed soft actuators, controlled by specific signals to generate sinusoidal undulation. Results show a positive correlation between speed and swing amplitude, with optimal performance at 2/3π phase offset, PLA tail, 1.2 voltage growth rate, and 6s undulation period achieving a maximum speed ...
Huichen Ma, Junjie Zhou, Raye Yeow
wiley   +1 more source

Oak Foundation Belize: Annual Summary Report 2012 [PDF]

, 2013
In 2006 Oak Foundation developed a ten-year strategic plan that guides its grant-making in Belize and the wider Mesoamerica region. The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed description of regional grantmaking in 2012 and inform on the progress

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