I. C. Enochs, D. P. Manzello, E. M. Donham, G. Kolodziej, R. Okano, L. Johnston, C. Young, J. Iguel, C. B. Edwards, M. D. Fox, L. Valentino, S. Johnson, D. Benavente, S. J. Clark, R. Carlton, T. Burton, Y. Eynaud and N. N. Price Read the full article here. ABSTRACT: Rising anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere is accompanied by an … Read More
Scaling the Annotation of Subtidal Marine Habitats
Perry Naughton, Clinton Edwards, Vid Petrovic, Ryan Kastner, Falko Kuester and Stuart Sandin. 2015. Read the full article here. ABSTRACT: Visually documenting seafloor habitats has the potential to answer challenging questions in several maritime disciplines including: ecology, geology, and archaeology. Unfortunately, the attenuation of visible light underwater limits the imaging footprint of a single image to square meters. This limitation … Read More
Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific
Jennifer E. Smith, Rusty Brainard, Amanda Carter, Saray Grillo, Clinton Edwards, Jill Harris, Levi Lewis, David Obura, Forest Rohwer, Enric Sala, Peter S. Vroom, Stuart Sandin. 2016. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Read the full article here. ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have documented declines in the abundance of reefbuilding corals over the last several decades and in some but not … Read More
Herbivore space use influences coral reef recovery
Yoan Eynaud, Dylan E. McNamara and Stuart A. Sandin Read the full article here. ABSTRACT: Herbivores play an important role in marine communities. On coral reefs, the diversity and unique feeding behaviours found within this functional group can have a comparably diverse set of impacts in structuring the benthic community. Here, using a spatially explicit model of herbivore foraging, we … Read More
Large-area imaging reveals biologically driven non-random spatial patterns of corals at a remote reef
Clinton B. Edwards, Yoan Eynaud, Gareth J. Williams, Nicole E. Pedersen, Brian J. Zgliczynski, Arthur C.R. Gleason, Jennifer E. Smith, Stuart A. Sandin. Read the full article here. For sessile organisms such as reef-building corals, differences in the degree of dispersion of individuals across a landscape may result from important differences in life-history strategies or may reflect patterns of habitat … Read More