Description
Climate change threatens even the best-protected and most remote reefs. Reef recovery following catastrophic disturbance usually requires disturbed sites be reseeded from upstream reefs. Recent research (McClanahan et al., 2012) assessed connectivity as an important resilience factor, which although difficult to measure, is a high priority for management of coral reef ecosystems. The products described herein identify reefs that act as âsourcesâ and/or âsinksâ in the Hawaiian Archipelago (and Johnston Atoll) to inform reef management strategies. Tools developed provide information on connectivity among reefs, thereby advancing the capacity for reef connectivity assessment.
Resources
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Tags
- 914
- biological oceanography
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- climate change resilience tools for coral reef managers - connectivity
- coastal processes
- coral reefs
- coral reef watch
- corals
- coris
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- hawaiian islands (21n157w0027)
- hybrid ocean coordinate model (hycom)
- johnston atoll
- johnston atoll (16n169w0001)
- larval connectivity
- larval dispersal
- main hawaiian islands
- marine ecosystem
- noaa
- northwestern hawaiian islands
- numeric data sets
- ocean
- ocean basin
- ocean circulation
- ocean currents
- oceanography
- oceans
- pacific ocean
- past
- physical oceanography
- reef monitoring and assessment
- regional
- reproduction
- sexual reproduction
- united states of america
- usa minor outlying islands
- western hemisphere
- zoology