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Drivers of region-wide declines in architectural complexity on Caribbean reefs
Type: Journal Article
Severe declines in the cover of live hard coral on reefs have been reported worldwide, and in the Caribbean region, the architectural complexity of coral reefs has also declined markedly. While the drivers of coral cover ...
Coral reef economic value and incentives for coral farming in Solomon Islands
Type: Brief
This brief was completed as part of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) National Program in the Solomon Islands. The research project, "Economic valuation of coral reefs and ...
Feedbacks as a bridging concept for advancing transdisciplinary sustainability research
Type: Journal Article
The emergence of transformation as a core component in sustainability science and practice has opened an exciting space for transdisciplinary research. Yet, the mainstreaming of transformation has also exposed epistemological ...
Spatial Data Quality Control for the Coral Triangle Atlas
Type: Journal Article
The Coral Triangle is a global priority for conservation and since the creation of the Coral Triangle Initiative in 2007 it has been a major focus for a multi-lateral conservation partnership uniting the regions six ...
Reefs at risk revisited
Type: Report
Under the Reefs at Risk Revisited project, World Resources Institute (WRI) and its partners (The Nature Conservancy, The WorldFish Center, ICRAN etc) have developed a new, detailed assessment of the status of and threats ...
Enhancement of grazing gastropod populations as a coral reef restoration tool: predation effects and related applied implications
Type: Journal Article
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of adding T. niloticus to control epilithic algal biomass and enhance coral recruitment on artificial substrata at a heavily fished reef in northwestern Philippines. Our ...
Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes
Type: Journal Article
Difficulties in scaling up theoretical and experimental results have raised controversy over the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a global survey of reef fish assemblages, ...
Coral reef conservation in Solomon Islands: Overcoming the policy implementation gap.
Type: Internal Report
This policy gap analysis identifies threats to coral reefs, evaluates the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to address these threats, and formulates recommendations to strengthen community-based natural resource ...
Crisis sentinel indicators: Averting a potential meltdown in the Coral Triangle
Type: Journal Article
The Coral Triangle (CT) includes some or all of the land and seas of six countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste (CT6). It covers only 1.1% of the world's ...
Food security and the coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
The Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity. Over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods. Hundreds of millions ...