Coral reefs are in decline worldwide and monitoring activities are important for assessing
the impact of disturbance on reefs and tracking subsequent recovery or decline. Monitoring …

Coral reef environments support high levels of marine biodiversity, they are important sites
for coastal habitation and they provide a range of goods and ecosystem services such as …

Providing accurate maps of coral reefs where the spatial scale and labels of the mapped
features correspond to map units appropriate for examining biological and geomorphic …

Understanding habitat-level variation in community structure provides an informed basis for
natural resources' management. Reef fishes are a major component of tropical marine …

The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the
destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new …

Mapping habitats is essential to assist strategic decisions regarding the use and protection
of coral reefs. Coupled with machine learning (ML) algorithms, remote sensing has allowed …

The relationship between species and the functional diversity of assemblages is
fundamental in ecology because it contains key information on functional redundancy, and …

Marine ecosystems provide critically important goods and services to society, and hence
their accelerated degradation underpins an urgent need to take rapid, ambitious and …

Research, monitoring and management of large marine protected areas require detailed
and up-to-date habitat maps. Ningaloo Marine Park (including the Muiron Islands) in north …

Abstract Menorca Channel (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean) comprises 98,700 Ha
of continental shelf. It has been proposed to include this area in the Natura 2000 network …