Essays about: "coral reef"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 25 essays containing the words coral reef.

  1. 16. Sustainable Manangement of Scuba Diving Tourism : A Study of the Marine Reserves of Bongoyo and Mbudya, Tanzania

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Emilia Gunnarsson; Emelie Sörholm; [2015]
    Keywords : Development; Marine Protected Areas; Sustainability; Nature-based tourism;

    Abstract : With an increasing understanding for the impacts of scuba dive tourism on the marine environments and local communities world-wide, research has recently expanded to include the perspectives of ecology, socio-culture and economy. However, due to the common lack of a transdisciplinary view, the following research aims at fulfilling the gap by viewing the management of scuba dive tourism at the two marine reserves of Bongoyo and Mbudya, Tanzania, through a sustainable perspective. READ MORE

  3. 17. Who benefits and who loses? : Evaluating the impacts of community-based marine protected areas on ecosystem services and human wellbeing

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Shauna Mahajan; [2014]
    Keywords : marine protected areas; ecosystem services; human wellbeing; coral reefs; Kenya;

    Abstract : Coral reef ecosystems are some of the most biologically diverse systems in the world, and provide a number of ecosystem services that humans depend on for their wellbeing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a social-ecological intervention that while conserving these ecosystems, also have significant impacts on the communities that depend on them for their wellbeing. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Need for Permanent Mooring Buoys in  the Gulf of Thailand : A Minor Field Study

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekologi

    Author : Maria Andersson; Mikaela Ring; [2013]
    Keywords : Coral reefs; mooring buoys; coral reef management; Gulf of Thailand; sustainable development;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the need for permanent mooring buoys at the popular off-shore islands of Pattaya, Thailand. By investigating the ecological, social and economic gains and losses of installing such buoys, the project aims to examine whether such buoys would help support a more sustainable development in the area. READ MORE

  5. 19. Human and natural drivers of multiple coral reef regimes across the Hawaiian archipelago

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; [2013]
    Keywords : benthic habitat; boosted regression trees; coral reefs; fish biomass; functional groups; Hawaiian archipelago; Principal Component Analysis; regime shifts; species diversity;

    Abstract : Loss of coral reef resilience can lead to dramatic changes in benthic structure, so called regime shifts, which significantly alter ecosystem processes and functioning. Loss of ecosystem services associated with these regime shifts can be substantial and have significant impacts on human well-being and societal development. READ MORE

  6. 20. The influence of habitat structural complexity on invertebrate diversity: A comparison between an impacted and a pristine coral reef

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i biologi

    Author : Michelle de Beer; [2013]
    Keywords : Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract Habitat complexity is shown to be an important driver of invertebrate diversity on impacted coral reefs when the diversity supported by a comparative unit of habitat complexity is compared to that of a pristine coral reef. The more structurally complex pristine reef does not support the conventionally expected greatest amount of diversity, instead an upper limit threshold to habitat complexity is observed. READ MORE