The biotic and abiotic assets of the marine environment form the “marine natural capital”
embedded in the global ocean. Marine natural capital provides the flow of “marine …

Highlights•Ecosystem resilience, vulnerability and robustness are available frameworks for
ecosystem management.•We provide explicit guidance on how to quantify them and when …

Managing coral reefs for resilience to climate change is a popular concept but has been
difficult to implement because the empirical scientific evidence has either not been …

Ecosystem management frequently aims to manage resilience yet measuring resilience has
proven difficult. Here, we quantify the ecological resilience of the largest reef in the …

Adaptive management of natural resources is an iterative process of decision making
whereby management strategies are progressively changed or adjusted in response to new …

The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation of the material,
do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN, CSIRO …

Coral recruitment describes the addition of new individuals to populations, and it is one of
the most fundamental demographic processes contributing to population size. As many coral …

Studying scleractinian coral bleaching and recovery dynamics in remote, isolated reef
systems offers an opportunity to examine impacts of global reef stressors in the absence of …

Ecological resilience assessments are an important part of resilience-based management
(RBM) and can help prioritize and target management actions. Use of such assessments …

The choice of ecological monitoring methods and descriptors determines the effectiveness
of a program designed to assess the state of coral reef ecosystems. Here, we comparer the …