• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0001548
Corpus ID: 12343048

Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

@article{Sandin2008BaselinesAD,
  title={Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands},
  author={S. Sandin and J. Smith and E. Demartini and E. Dinsdale and S. Donner and A. Friedlander and T. Konotchick and Machel Malay and J. Maragos and D. Obura and O. Pantos and G. Paulay and Morgan Richie and F. Rohwer and R. Schroeder and S. Walsh and J. Jackson and N. Knowlton and E. Sala},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2008},
  volume={3}
}

• S. Sandin, J. Smith, +16 authors E. Sala
• Published 2008
• Geography, Medicine
• PLoS ONE

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 it is difficult to separate local from global effects. To this end, we surveyed coral reefs on uninhabited atolls in the northern Line Islands to provide a baseline of reef community structure, and… Expand