@article{42b63b47043945918eefee002dc4ac20,
title = "From polyps to pixels: understanding coral reef resilience to local and global change across scales",
abstract = "Context: Coral reef resilience is the product of multiple interacting processes that occur across various interacting scales. This complexity presents challenges for identifying solutions to the ongoing worldwide decline of coral reef ecosystems that are threatened by both local and global human stressors. Objectives: We highlight how coral reef resilience is studied at spatial, temporal, and functional scales, and explore emerging technologies that are bringing new insights to our understanding of reef resilience. We then provide a framework for integrating insights across scales by using new and existing technological and analytical tools. We also discuss the implications of scale on both the ecological processes that lead to declines of reefs, and how we study those mechanisms. Methods: To illustrate, we present a case study from Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaiʻi, USA, linking remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery to within-colony symbiont communities that show differential responses to stress. Results: In doing so, we transform the scale at which we can study coral resilience from a few individuals to entire ecosystems. Conclusions: Together, these perspectives guide best practices for designing management solutions that scale from individuals to ecosystems by integrating multiple levels of biological organization from cellular processes to global patterns of coral degradation and resilience.",
keywords = "Cross-scale, Remote sensing, Scaling, Sustainability",
author = "Donovan, {Mary K.} and Catherine Alves and John Burns and Crawford Drury and Meier, {Ouida W.} and Raphael Ritson-Williams and Ross Cunning and Dunn, {Robert P.} and Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley and Henderson, {Leslie M.} and Knapp, {Ingrid S.S.} and Joshua Levy and Logan, {Cheryl A.} and Laura Mudge and Chris Sullivan and Gates, {Ruth D.} and Asner, {Gregory P.}",
note = "Funding Information: The ideas and perspectives for this work were generated at a working group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for the Coral Reef Science and Cyberinfrastructure Network (CRESCYNT). We acknowledge Julian Brun, Jeanette Clark, Ken Johnson, David Knapp, Eric Lingerfelt, Robin Martin, Robert McGuinn, and Julia Stewert-Lowndes for participating in discussions that led to this work. CRESCYNT is a Research Coordination Network supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1440342. A portion of this study was supported by a Lenfest Ocean Program grant to G. Asner, and by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and CZI grants to C. Drury. The Global Airborne Observatory is made possible by support provided by private foundations, visionary individuals, and Arizona State University. Funding Information: National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1440342, Lenfest Ocean Program. Funding Information: The ideas and perspectives for this work were generated at a working group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for the Coral Reef Science and Cyberinfrastructure Network (CRESCYNT). We acknowledge Julian Brun, Jeanette Clark, Ken Johnson, David Knapp, Eric Lingerfelt, Robin Martin, Robert McGuinn, and Julia Stewert-Lowndes for participating in discussions that led to this work. CRESCYNT is a Research Coordination Network supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1440342. A portion of this study was supported by a Lenfest Ocean Program grant to G. Asner, and by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and CZI grants to C. Drury. The Global Airborne Observatory is made possible by support provided by private foundations, visionary individuals, and Arizona State University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1007/s10980-022-01463-3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "737--752",
journal = "Landscape Ecology",
issn = "0921-2973",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3",
}