Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Book Id: WPLBN0000695986
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 2.57 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Author:	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Science., Ecology & environment, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
Collections:	National Oceanographic Data Center
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	Government Reference Publication


Citation APA MLA Chicago And Atmospheric Administration, N. O. (n.d.). Coral Reef Ecosystems of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The NWHI are most remote large-scale coral reef ecosystem on the planet Laysan is the only low coral island in the NWHI that is not part of an atoll...

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 NWHI Survey Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Terrestrial Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Marine Field Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Oceanography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Fish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Coral Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Invertebrate Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Protected Marine Species. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Algal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Remote Sensing and Groundtruthing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Wide Range of Marine Habitats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Island Coral Reef Profiles Midway Atoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Kure Atoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Pearl and Hermes Atoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Lisianski Island and Neva Shoal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Laysan Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Maro Reef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 French Frigate Shoals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Gardner Pinnacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Necker Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Nihoa Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Raita Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Why Are The NWHI So Important? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 What Are The Principal Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Spotlight on Marine Debris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Results of Contaminants Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Remnants of a Ship Grounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Where Do We Go From Here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Big Picture: Comparative Chart of the NWHI . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cal Hirai