Tag: coral reefs
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New publication: Interactions between local disturbance and climate-driven heat stress on central Pacific coral reefs
The second chapter of my PhD research is now published in Marine Ecology Progress Series (not open-access, but if you don’t have access through an institution and would like a copy please send me an email and I’d be happy to share a copy!). Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on our…
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New publication: Macroalgae exhibit diverse responses to human disturbances on coral reefs
I am thrilled to share this new open-access publication, out today in Global Change Biology! This research is based on a chapter of my PhD dissertation. It was a massive effort that brought together 44 individual authors from 39 different institutions, to create a dataset of genus-level macroalgal percent cover across the Indian and Pacific…
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New publication: Coral reefs in the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati after more than a decade of multiple stressors
I’m thrilled to share the first publication from my Ph.D. dissertation research, out last month in the open-access journal PLoS One (and available for download here). This paper will be the first chapter of my dissertation, and it’s great to (finally) see it out in the universe! For this paper, my co-authors (including my advisor…
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Hidden Indicators of Reef Health: New study suggests that common survey metrics may miss subtler signs of stress (cross-posted from Reefbites)
Some corals in the Gulf of Aqaba (also known as the Gulf of Eilat) in the Red Sea are spawning out of sync, says a new paper published in Science by scientists Tom Shlesinger and Yossi Loya from Tel-Aviv University.
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New publication: The relationship between macroalgae taxa and human disturbance on central Pacific coral reefs
I am delighted to share my first first-authored peer reviewed journal article, The relationship between macroalgae taxa and human disturbance on central Pacific coral reefs, now out in Marine Pollution Bulletin!
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How corals can help us make predictions about our future under climate change (cross-posted from ReefBites)
This blog post originally appeared on ReefBites, the student blog of the International Society for Reef Studies. Every two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate oscillates between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) conditions in a process known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This process influences sea surface temperatures…
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“We are not drowning, we are fighting”: Pacific Islanders want you to know that they still have hope for their islands
This blog post originally appeared on the Ocean Leaders blog, which highlights the work of Ocean Leaders fellows. Please consider giving them a follow on social media at @oceanleaders on Twitter or OceanLeadersUBC on Facebook! This past weekend, I was on a discussion panel for the documentary film Anote’s Ark, which follows the former present of…
Sara E. Cannon, PhD 