by Kate Longley-Wood | Jul 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
The MOW team in Micronesia has published a new paper, Modelling and mapping regional-scale patterns of fishing impact and fish stocks to support coral-reef management in Micronesia in the journal Diversity and Distributions. Led by Alastair Harborne of Florida...
by Kate Longley-Wood | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
The most detailed study to date of the soil carbon stored in mangrove forests has revealed that these soils hold more than 6.4 billion tons of carbon globally, according to a new paper in Environmental Research Letters. That is about 4.5 times the amount of carbon...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Nature Conservancy, Microsoft, and Esri have formed a collaboration around geospatial technology and natural solutions for conservation and climate adaptation planning. One of the key goals of this larger collaboration effort is to demonstrate how TNC is making...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Mapping Ocean Wealth (MOW) Australia team (OzMOW) are currently working hard to understand the distribution and value of carbon stored in ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds and saltmarshes, otherwise known as blue carbon. Methods for quantifying carbon in...
by Kate Longley-Wood | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mangroves are multi-taskers in the world of ocean wealth. In addition to providing habitat for both artisanal and commercially-fished species, sequestering carbon, and bolstering tourism, mangroves are essential for protecting coastal communities from the effects of...