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Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon world heritage areasTerence P Hughes
Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Ambio 36:586-92. 2007....
Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef: a globally significant demonstration of the benefits of networks of marine reservesLaurence J McCook
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:18278-85. 2010..Given the major threat posed by climate change, the expanded network of marine reserves provides a critical and cost-effective contribution to enhancing the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef...
Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilienceTerry P Hughes
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 25:633-42. 2010..Learning how to avoid undesirable phase-shifts, and how to reverse them when they occur, requires an urgent reform of scientific approaches, policies, governance structures and coral reef management...- Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shiftsTerry P Hughes
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia Electronic address
Trends Ecol Evol 28:149-55. 2013..In this context, the most important challenge is a social one: convincing enough people to confront business-as-usual before time runs out to reverse unwanted regime shifts even after they have already begun... - Assembly rules of reef corals are flexible along a steep climatic gradientTerry P Hughes
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Curr Biol 22:736-41. 2012.... - Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefsT P Hughes
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Science 301:929-33. 2003..International integration of management strategies that support reef resilience need to be vigorously implemented, and complemented by strong policy decisions to reduce the rate of global warming... - Phase shifts, herbivory, and the resilience of coral reefs to climate changeTerence P Hughes
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia
Curr Biol 17:360-5. 2007.... - Sleeping functional group drives coral-reef recoveryDavid R Bellwood
Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Curr Biol 16:2434-9. 2006..Nevertheless, reversal is possible. The critical issue is to identify and protect those groups that underpin the resilience and regeneration of complex ecosystems... - Community structure of corals and reef fishes at multiple scalesSean R Connolly
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Department of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Science 309:1363-5. 2005..Our findings underscore the importance of robust conservation strategies that are appropriately scaled to the broad suite of environmental processes that help sustain biodiversity... - No-take areas, herbivory and coral reef resilienceTerry P Hughes
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 22:1-3. 2007..No-take areas, where fishing is prohibited, are vital tools for managing food webs, ecosystem function and the resilience of reefs, in a seascape setting that extends far beyond the boundaries of the reefs themselves... - Confronting the coral reef crisisD R Bellwood
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Dept of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Nature 429:827-33. 2004..These findings have profound implications for restoration of degraded reefs, management of fisheries, and the focus on marine protected areas and biodiversity hotspots as priorities for conservation... - Regional-scale assembly rules and biodiversity of coral reefsD R Bellwood
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Department of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Science 292:1532-5. 2001..Low-diversity regions are most vulnerable to human impacts such as global warming, underscoring the urgent need for integrated management at multinational scales... - Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversityMaria Dornelas
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Nature 440:80-2. 2006..Instead, our results support spatio-temporal environmental stochasticity as a major driver of diversity patterns on coral reefs... - Aggregation influences coral species richness at multiple spatial scalesRonald H Karlson
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
Ecology 88:170-7. 2007.... - Scale-dependent variation in coral community similarity across sites, islands, and island groupsHoward V Cornell
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Ecology 88:1707-15. 2007..The results suggest that coral species can disperse among islands in an island group as easily as they can among sites on an island over time scales that are relevant to their establishment and persistence on reefs... - Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradientRonald H Karlson
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
Nature 429:867-70. 2004..Understanding these historical and biogeographical influences is essential for the effective management and preservation of these endangered communities... - Global trajectories of the long-term decline of coral reef ecosystemsJohn M Pandolfi
Department of Paleobiology, MRC 121, National Museum of Natural History, Post Office Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 7012, USA
Science 301:955-8. 2003..All reefs were substantially degraded long before outbreaks of coral disease and bleaching. Regardless of these new threats, reefs will not survive without immediate protection from human exploitation over large spatial scales...