My team at WRI, together with Dr. Bob Diaz at the Virginia Marine Institute, has identified and mapped 415 eutrophic and hypoxic coastal systems worldwide through an extensive literature review. Of these, 169 are documented hypoxic areas, 233 are areas of concern and 13 are systems in recovery.
Pioneering efforts to quantify the risks posed to reefs and the value they provide to people and nature.
This project seeks to improve coastal resource management and coral reef protection by providing comprehensive information on land-based sources of threat to the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Raising awareness of threats to coral reefs and providing information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively.
Developing indicators to manage water for people and nature. Special focus is placed on balancing water-use between the agriculture sector and freshwater ecosystems, highlighting the importance of sustaining functioning ecosystems.
The CD contains all data used in the Watershed Analysis for the Mesoamerican Reef, with accompanying metadata as well as all of the model results.
This analysis quantifies and maps the origins of sediment and nutrient runoff that threatens the Mesoamerican Reef. With it, WRI seeks to inform land-use planning, agriculture, conservation and threat mitigation efforts.
WRI cuantifica el sedimento y los nutrientes provenientes de 400 cuencas que descargan en el Arrecife Mesoamericano para apoyar planes de ordenamiento territorial, la agricultura, la conservación y esfuerzos de mitigación de amenazas costeras.
Proceedings from Workshop on Watershed Management, Land Cover Change Analysis, and Modeling of Land-based Sources of Pollution and Sediment Discharge to the MAR – San Ignacio, Belize, August 15-18, 2006
This atlas, developed by WRI and NOAA, provides a series of spatial indicators of watershed-based sources of threat to coral reefs in the US Virgin Islands.
This data CD was developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under their Reefs at Risk / Summit to Seas project collaboration. To order it please email reefsatrisk@wri.org.
The Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia Data CD contains the range of data assembled and model results developed under the project (with metadata).
