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Coral Disease - guidelines for assessment, monitoring and management (2008)

Designed for reef managers by international experts on coral disease, the Handbook outlines procedures for describing indicators, measuring impacts, monitoring outbreaks, assessing causes, and managing reefs to minimize losses due to disease. This handbook helps managers not only to document and manage disease on their reefs, but also enables them to contribute to our scientific understanding of this grave and increasing threat.

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Underwater Cards for Assessing Coral Health on Caribbean Reefs (2008)

These Underwater Cards for assessing the health of coral reefs have been designed so that scientific, professional and recreational divers can all assist with gathering information on the occurrence of coral reef diseases in the Caribbean. These cards will assist in the identification and monitoring of diseases in Caribbean coral and other reef organisms.

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Underwater Cards for Assessing Coral Health on Indo-Pacific Reefs (2008)

These Underwater Cards for assessing the health of coral reefs have been designed so that scientific, professional and recreational divers can all assist with gathering information on the occurrence of coral reef diseases in the Indo-Pacific. These cards will assist in the identification and monitoring of diseases in Indo-Pacific corals and other reef organisms.

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Reef Restoration Concepts and Guidelines: Making sensible management choices in the face of uncertainty

New guidelines from the CRTR Program provide coastal managers, decision-makers, technical advisors and others with an overview of research exploring successful and unsuccessful coral reef restoration approaches from around the world

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>> Download full report (English) [PDF, 3MB]

>> Download full report (French) [PDF, 1.2MB]


 

Practical Guide to Coral Reef-Friendly Practices for Local Governments (2008)

This manual provides advice on coral reef practices to assist local governments to better manage coral reefs.

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Coastal Remote Sensing Toolkit

This toolkit shows managers, scientists and technicians working in coastal marine environments how images, collected from satellites and aircraft, can be used to map and monitor changes to indicators of coastal ecosystem health. This toolkit focuses on coastal water bodies, seagrass, coral reefs, and mangroves.

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Reefvid

Over 500 clips of video footage of a variety of reef-related phenomena is provided here and is freely available for educational and research use.

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COENOMAP

CoenoMAP is a web-accessible, map-oriented database on the distribution of corals in the Philippines. It allows collegial sharing and updating of information to support conservation and to facilitate research on Philippine corals.

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