Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the northern Line Islands

• Main Authors: Sandin, Stuart A., Smith, Jennifer E., DeMartini, Edward E., Dinsdale, Elizabeth A., Donner, Simon D., Friedlander, Alan M., Konotchick, Talina, Malay, Machel, Maragos, James E., Obura, David, Pantos, Olga, Paulay, Gustav, Richie, Morgan, Rohwer, Forest, Schroeder, Robert E., Walsh, Sheila, Jackson, Jeremy B.C., Knowlton, Nancy, Sala, Enric
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Coral declines—Line Islands; Coral reef ecology—Line Islands; Coral reef conservation—Line Islands; Marine Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8038
• Institution: De La Salle University

Effective conservation requires rigorous baselines of pristine conditions to assess the impacts of human activities and to evaluate the efficacy of management. Most coral reefs are moderately to severely degraded by local human activities such as fishing and pollution as well as global change, hence...