Land use impacts on coral reef health: A ridge-to-reef perspective

RR Carlson, SA Foo, GP Asner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

Review of watershed-scale water quality and nonpoint source pollution models

L Yuan, T Sinshaw, KJ Forshay - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Watershed-scale nonpoint source (NPS) pollution models have become important tools to
understand, evaluate, and predict the negative impacts of NPS pollution on water quality …

Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Relating sediment impacts on coral reefs to watershed sources, processes and management: A review

R Bartley, ZT Bainbridge, SE Lewis, FJ Kroon… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Modification of terrestrial sediment fluxes can result in increased sedimentation and turbidity
in receiving waters, with detrimental impacts on coral reef ecosystems. Preventing …

Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean

K Douglass, J Cooper - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in
the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health …

[HTML][HTML] Human deforestation outweighs future climate change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs

J Maina, H De Moel, J Zinke, J Madin… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Near-shore coral reef systems are experiencing increased sediment supply due to
conversion of forests to other land uses. Counteracting increased sediment loads requires …

Coral skeletal geochemistry as a monitor of inshore water quality

N Saha, GE Webb, JX Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

A decade and a half of learning from Madagascar's first locally managed marine area

CJ Gardner, G Cripps, LP Day, K Dewar… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While the participatory management of small scale fisheries has been widely promoted, we
have limited understanding of the factors influencing its effectiveness. Here, we highlight …

Tracing the influence of land-use change on water quality and coral reefs using a Bayesian model

CJ Brown, SD Jupiter, S Albert, CJ Klein… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Coastal ecosystems can be degraded by poor water quality. Tracing the causes of poor
water quality back to land-use change is necessary to target catchment management for …

Marine macroalgal biodiversity of northern Madagascar: morpho-genetic systematics and implications of anthropic impacts for conservation

C Vieira, A De Ramon N'Yeurt… - Biodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
A floristic survey of the marine algal biodiversity of Antsiranana Bay, northern Madagascar,
was conducted during November 2018. This represents the first inventory encompassing the …