Assessing coral reef health in the North Ari Atoll (Maldives) using the FoRAM Index

• Main Authors: Pisapia, C., Kateb, Akram El, Hallock, P., Spezzaferri, Silvia
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ari; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/305671/files/spe_acr.pdf

Tropical marine ecosystems are richly diverse, but are experiencing growing pressure from coastal development and tourism. Assessing the status of coral reef communities along gradients of human pressure is necessary to predict recovery capacity of reefs exposed to acute events such as mass bleachin...