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Conservation status and spatial patterns of AGRRA vitality indices in Southwestern Atlantic Reefs
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2010 Coral reefs along the Eastern Brazilian coast extend for a distance of 800km from 12° to 18°S. They are the largest and the richest reefs of Brazil coasts, and represent the Southernmost coral reefs of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Ruy K.P Kikuchi +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 We developed a novel integrated technology for diver-operated surveying of shallow marine ecosystems. The HyperDiver system captures rich multifaceted data in each transect: hyperspectral and color imagery, topographic profiles, incident irradiance and ...
Arjun Chennu +4 more
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Seagrass species diversity in Tanzania based on morphological and molecular data
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Seagrass diversity along the Tanzanian coast has been documented mainly through morphology, with limited molecular reference data available for Tanzania and the wider Western Indian Ocean. This study combined morphological identification with nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and plastid ribulose‐1,5‐bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
James Leonard Lusana +1 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Anthropogenic disturbances are degrading nature at a rate that exceeds its capacity to recover. While considerable research has focused on understanding ecosystem impacts, recovery processes remain comparatively overlooked, particularly in marine ecosystems, where long‐term data on how highly complex systems respond to disturbances are scarce.
Yanis Zentner +6 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceCoral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystem in eastern Arabia, which includes the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Western Arabian Gulf, an area collectively known as the ROPME Sea Area under UN convention.
Hannah Gower +3 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Understanding the scales and mechanisms by which species composition interacts with ecosystem functions is critical for forecasting the effects of environmental perturbations on ecosystem services. However, the linkages between what regulates the ecosystem functions of dispersal‐capable networks of communities (metacommunities) and what regulates a ...
Thomas P. Shannon, Evelyn E. Gaiser
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Discover OceansCaribbean coral reefs have experienced long-term declines in coral cover, structural complexity, and ecological function, yet many local reef systems remain underrepresented in sustained monitoring programs.
Paula Sills, Rosie Young
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Autonomous robotic systems for coral reef monitoring: Review and open research issues
Ecological InformaticsCoral reefs, vital ecosystems for marine life, face extinction threats from natural and human-induced factors. Conventional conservation methods struggle to provide the necessary scale and frequency of monitoring data.
Atif Sultan +5 more
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What is ‘relational thinking’, and how does it manifest in research?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract People and Nature is a ‘journal of relational thinking’. This editorial explores what relational thinking can mean and how it might be operationalized in the context of humans and the environment. Relational thinking may seem intuitive because it recognizes the world's inherent interconnectedness. However, the question of how to operationalize
Rachelle K. Gould +6 more
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Coral reef detection using ICESat-2 and machine learning
Ecological InformaticsAs anthropogenic impacts threaten natural habitats, effective monitoring strategies are crucial. Coral reefs, among the most vulnerable ecosystems, traditionally employ monitoring techniques that are labor-intensive and costly, prompting the exploration ...
Gabrielle A. Trudeau +2 more
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