Modeling reef health from upstream socio-ecological components using GIS and RS

Ecological services provided by coral reefs are threatened by complex dynamics of global and local drivers. Fostering an appropriate management at local scale may enhance the resilience of the coral reefs facing large-scale issues, more laboriously manageable. We propose to model a bespoke reef heal...

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Published in:2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS pp. 306 - 309
Main Authors: Pouteau, Robin, Collin, Antoine, Archambault, Philippe, Stoll, Benoit
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Japanese
Published: IEEE 01.07.2013
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Biological system modeling
Computational modeling
Dispersion
Focusing
Indexes
landscape monitoring
Non-linear modeling
Pacific Islands
Plants (biology)
terrestrial runoff
ISSN:2153-6996
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Summary:Ecological services provided by coral reefs are threatened by complex dynamics of global and local drivers. Fostering an appropriate management at local scale may enhance the resilience of the coral reefs facing large-scale issues, more laboriously manageable. We propose to model a bespoke reef health index (RHI) using a comprehensive dataset of socio-ecological variables and the Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). The variation of the RHI was primarily explained by the cluster of physiographic variables (55.45%), to a lesser extent, by land cover (36.42%), and finally by sociological variables (8.12%). The dispersion and the mean of the slope, as well as the built-up area increasingly contributed to the satisfactory modeling of the RHI (14.07, 14.12, 15.37%, respectively). These results will hopefully be useful for the stakeholders tasking with integrated coastal sustainability.
ISSN:2153-6996
DOI:10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721153