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Brianna LeFebre, Phil Saye and James S. Henkel
Coral reef rehabilitation in the Caribbean is of major ecological and economic importance in the West Indies. Local organizations in Grenada constructed a cement pyramid artificial reef structure with rugosity (termed ?The Pyramid?) and placed a number o...
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Xu Wang, Ke Qu, Jia Men, Liangbin Zhang, Junjie Li and Rongze Gao
Dredging materials from reef flats have become an important source of sand and aggregates for meeting the infrastructure needs of coral-lined shores in subtropical and tropical regions, especially for low-lying atoll islands. Dredging at the reef flats c...
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Moleni Tu?uholoaki, Antonio Espejo, Moritz Wandres, Awnesh Singh, Herve Damlamian and Zulfikar Begg
The South Pacific region is characterised by steep shelves and fringing coral reef islands. The lack of wide continental shelves that can dissipate waves makes Pacific Island countries vulnerable to large waves that can enhance extreme total water levels...
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Curt D. Storlazzi, Annouk E. Rey and Ap R. van Dongeren
Many populated, tropical coastlines fronted by fringing coral reefs are exposed to wave-driven marine flooding that is exacerbated by sea-level rise. Most fringing coral reefs are not alongshore uniform, but bisected by shore-normal channels; however, li...
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Juan J. Muñoz-Perez, Shari L. Gallop and Luis J. Moreno
Fringing reefs have significant impacts on beach dynamics, yet there is little research on how they should be considered in beach nourishment design, monitoring, and conservation works. Thus, the behavior and characteristics of nourishment projects at tw...
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Weijie Liu, Keqi Shao and Yue Ning
This study utilized a shock-capturing Boussinesq model FUNWAVE-TVD to investigate the maximum momentum flux in the solitary wave run-up zone over back-reef slopes. Validation results of the present model were compared to the previous version of FUNWAVE u...
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Shashank Keshavmurthy, Chao-Yang Kuo, Ya-Yi Huang, Rodrigo Carballo-Bolaños, Pei-Jei Meng, Jih-Terng Wang and Chaolun Allen Chen
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene are being subjected to unprecedented levels of stressors, including local disturbances?such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution?and large-scale destruction related to the global impacts of climate change?suc...
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Kelsey A. Barnhill and Keisha D. Bahr
Globally, coral reefs are under threat from climate change and increasingly frequent bleaching events. However, corals in Kane?ohe Bay, Hawai?i have demonstrated the ability to acclimatize and resist increasing temperatures. Benthic cover (i.e., coral, a...
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