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Paper | 2013
Graham, N. A.J, Bellwood D. R., Cinner J. E., Hughes T. P., Norström A. V., and Nyström M. 2013. Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs. Front Ecol Environ 2013; doi:10.1890/120305
Both coral-dominated and degraded reef ecosystems can be resistant to change. Typically, research and manage- ment have focused on maintaining coral dominance and avoiding phase shifts to other species compositions, rather than on weakening the resilience of already degraded reefs to re-establish coral dominance. Reversing degraded coral-reef states will involve reducing local chronic drivers like fishing pressure and poor wat...
Journal / article | 2012
Thyresson, M., Crona, B., Nyström, M., de la Torre-Castro, M., Jiddawi, N. 2012. Tracing value chains to understand effects of trade on coral reef fish in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Marine Policy, 38, 246-256
Coral reef fish are an important source of food security and income for human coastal populations. They also underpin ecosystem processes vital for the future ability of coral reefs to generate ecological goods and services. Identifying socio-economic drivers behind the exploitation of fish that uphold these key ecosystem processes and the scales at which they operate is therefore critical for successful management. This stu...
Berkström, C., Gullström, M., Lindborg, R., Mwandya, A.W., Yahya, S.A.S., Kautsky, N., Nyström, M. 2012. Exploring ‘knowns’ and ‘unknowns’ in tropical seascape connectivity with insights from East African coral reefs. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 107, 1-21
Applying a broader landscape perspective to understand spatio-temporal changes in local populations and communities has been increasingly used in terrestrial systems to study effects of human impact and land use change. With today's major declines in fishery stocks and rapid degradation of natural coastal habitats, the understanding of habitat configuration and connectivity over relevant temporal and spatial scales is critic...
Book chapter | 2012
Biggs R, T Blenckner, C Folke, L Gordon, A Norström, M Nyström, GD Peterson. 2012. Regime Shifts. In: Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. A Hastings, L Gross (eds). University of California Press, Ewing, NJ, USA.
Nyström M., Norström A., Blenckner T., de la Torre-Castro M., Eklöf JS., Folke C., Österblom H., Steneck RS., Thyresson M., Troell M. (2012) Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9530-6
In many coastal areas, marine ecosystems have shifted into contrasting states having reduced ecosystem services (hereafter called degraded). Such degraded ecosystems may be slow to revert to their original state due to new ecological feedbacks that reinforce the degraded state. A better understanding of the way human actions influence the strength and direction of feedbacks, how different feedbacks could interact, and at wh...
Journal / article | 2011
Faxneld Suzanne; Jorgensen Tove Lund; Nguyen Ngai D.; et al. 2011. Differences in physiological response to increased seawater temperature in nearshore and offshore corals in northern Vietnam. Marine Environmental Research Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-233
Publication review Effects of elevated seawater temperature show high spatial heterogeneity and variation within and among coral species. The objective of this study was to investigate how two coral species, Porites lutea and Galaxea fascicularis, from two high latitude reefs differently exposed to chronic disturbance, respond to elevated seawater temperatures. Corals were collected from reefs nearshore (i.e. subjected to...
Thyresson, M. Nyström, M. and B. Crona. 2011. Trading with resilience: Parrotfish trade and the exploitation of key-ecosystem processes in coral reefs. Coastal management. 39:4:396-411.
Publication review Parrotfish play two important roles in coral reef social—ecological systems; first as important sources of food for reef dependent people, and second by underpinning the ecological function of herbivory (i.e., grazing of algae) on coral reefs. Overfishing of herbivores can be detrimental to coral reef ecosystems because their removal may allow algae to outcompete corals. However, little is known about the...
Journal / article | 2010
Lokrantz J., Nyström, M., Norström, A.V., Folke, C., Cinner, C.E. 2010. Impacts of artisanal fishing on key functional groups and the potential vulnerability of coral reefs. Environmental Conservation. doi: 10.1017/S0376892910000147
Publication review Fishing can have major impacts on the structure of coral reef ecosystems. Overfishing of herbivores is particularly detrimental, as it makes the coral system more likely to undergo shifts to macroalgal dominance in the event of coral mass mortality. Knowing when important processes, such as herbivory, are becoming brittle is important because it can provide an opportunity for managers to avoid undesirable ...
Crona, B., Nyström, M., Folke, C., Jiddawi, N. 2010. Middlemen, a critical social-ecological link in coastal communities of Kenya and Zanzibar. Marine Policy
Publication review Middlemen both a challenge and possible solution to sustainable fish stock governance in East Africa. Understanding the links and feedback mechanisms in social-ecological systems is a rapidly expanding research area. Centre researchers have previously shown how social networks might be more important than formal institutions in natural resource governance . Now, in a new article published in Marine Poli...
Journal / article | 2009
Norström, A., Nyström, M., Lokrantz, J., Folke, C. (2009). Alternative states of coral reefs: Beyond coral-macroalgal phase shifts. Marine Ecology Progress Series 376: 295-306.
Publication review New research reveals alternative coral reef states. - A review of the primary and grey literature indicates that reefs dominated by corallimorpharia, soft corals, sponges and sea urchins can enter an alternative state as a result of a phase shift. However, they may differ from the archetypical coral — macroalgae shift, in the factors driving the shift. This is one of the key findings from a new article ...
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