[HTML][HTML] A review of the vulnerability of low-lying reef island landscapes to climate change and ways forward for sustainable management

DM Kennedy - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-lying small island states whose existence is a product of sediment production from their
surrounding reefs are highly vulnerable landscapes to climate change. This vulnerability …

Heightened storm activity drives late Holocene reef island formation in the central Pacific Ocean

PS Kench, MR Ford, JF Bramante, AD Ashton… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of global environmental change on coral reef islands is uncertain, with few
studies having resolved the critical controls on island formation and change. Based on …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-late holocene accretional history of low-lying, coral-reef rim islets, South-Marutea Atoll, Tuamotu, central South Pacific: The key role of marine hazard …

LF Montaggioni, B Salvat, E Pons-Branchu… - Natural Hazards …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract South-Marutea Atoll is located in the Gambier Island Group, at the south-eastern
end of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, central South Pacific. Understanding the …

Finding patterns of atoll morphometrics at a range of spatial scales

FM Johnson, AC Ortiz - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Small Island Nations, often comprised of Atolls, are at considerable risk of climate change
impacts from sea-level rise to coral acidification to increasing cyclone intensity; …

Assessing atoll island physical robustness: application to Rangiroa Atoll, French Polynesia

VKE Duvat, N Volto, S Costa, O Maquaire… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
This article proposes a comprehensive methodology considering geomorphic, ecological
and human variables to assess atoll island physical robustness in the face of climate-ocean …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene Depositional History of Low-Lying Reef-Rim Carbonate Islets of Fakarava Atoll, Northwest Tuamotu, Central South Pacific

LF Montaggioni, B Salvat, E Pons-Branchu… - Geosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Assumptions about the fate of low-lying coral reef islands (atolls) facing global warming are
poorly constrained, due to insufficient information on their depositional history. Based on the …

Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming atolls: the case of Raroia, Takapoto, Apataki and Takaroa (French Polynesia)

O Bruyère, R Le Gendre, M Chauveau… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Between 2018 and 2022, four pearl farming Tuamotu atolls of French Polynesia were
monitored with autonomous oceanographic instruments to measure the hydrodynamics of …