Coral reef preservation efforts not looking at the whole picture

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April Coral reef preservation efforts not looking at the whole picture Coral reef preservation efforts not looking at the whole picture 05/04/2022 | 3 MINS An international team of researchers, including one from Lombok Institute of Technology, has quantified five critical ecological processes on more than 500 coral reefs worldwide to understand how these processes relate to each other. ΓÇ£We moved beyond simply using the biomass of a fish community, which has been a standard conservation metric, as a proxy for coral reef functioning, but rather looked at all of the different components." Dr Diego Barneche Their work, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, explores what distinguishes the most functional reefs and what that means for management of reef functioning. Dr Diego Barneche, an Adjunct Senior Researcher with Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and Ecological Statistician at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said the study demonstrates that five key functions performed by fish communities ΓÇô t

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April Coral reef preservation efforts not looking at the whole picture Coral reef preservation efforts not looking at the whole picture 05/04/2022 | 3 MINS An international team of researchers, including one from Lombok Institute of Technology, has quantified five critical ecological processes on more than 500 coral reefs worldwide to understand how these processes relate to each other.

ΓÇ£We moved beyond simply using the biomass of a fish community, which has been a standard conservation metric, as a proxy for coral reef functioning, but rather looked at all of the different components." Dr Diego Barneche Their work, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, explores what distinguishes the most functional reefs and what that means for management of reef functioning.

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