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    Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on a diverse riverine fish assemblage in Fiji predicted by functional traits

    Anthropogenic disturbances particularly affect biodiversity in sensitive freshwater ecosystems by causing species loss. Thus, measuring the response of species to multiple disturbances is a key issue for conservation and environmental management. As it is not practical to assess the response of every species in a community, we compared the performance of trait and taxonomic-based groupings of species for their abilities to predict species loss in a threatened freshwater fish assemblage.

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    Synthesis centers as critical research infrastructure

    Synthesis centers offer a unique amalgam of culture, infrastructure, leadership, and support that facilitates creative discovery on issues crucial to science and society. The combination of logistical support, postdoctoral or senior fellowships, complex data management, informatics and computing capability or expertise, and most of all, opportunity for group discussion and reflection lowers the “activation energy” necessary to promote creativity and the cross-fertilization of ideas.

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    Drivers and implications of change in global ocean health over the past five years

    Growing international and national focus on quantitatively measuring and improving ocean health has increased the need for comprehensive, scientific, and repeated indicators to track progress towards achieving policy and societal goals. The Ocean Health Index (OHI) is one of the few indicators available for this purpose. Here we present results from five years of annual global assessment for 220 countries and territories, evaluating potential drivers and consequences of changes and presenting lessons learned about the challenges of using composite indicators to measure sustainability goals.

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    Defining ecological drought for the 21st century

    Droughts of the 21st 38 century are characterized by hotter temperatures, longer duration and greater spatial extent, and are increasingly exacerbated by human demands for water. This situation increases the vulnerability of ecosystems to drought, including a rise in drought-driven tree mortality globally (Allen et al. 2015) and anticipated ecosystem transformations from one state to another, e.g., forest to a shrubland (Jiang et al. 2013).

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    Defining ecosystem thresholds for human activities and environmental pressures in the California Current

    The oceans are changing more rapidly than ever before. Unprecedented climatic variability is interacting with unmistakable long-term trends, all against a backdrop of intensifying human activities. What remains unclear, however, is how to evaluate whether conditions have changed sufficiently to provoke major responses of species, habitats, and communities. We developed a framework based on multimodel inference to define ecosystem-based thresholds for human and environmental pressures in the California Current marine ecosystem.

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    World Conservation Congress Session

    We presented an overview of our SNAPP working group project at a World Conservation Congress (WCC) session held in the Hawaii Pacific Pavilion.

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    Convention on Biological Diversity COP 13 SNAPP Presentation

    Co-PI Eleanor Sterling was invited by United Nations -- the UNESCO-SCBD Joint Programme on links between biological and cultural diversity -- to present some of our SNAPP results at the CBD COP 13 in Mexico.

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    Handbook for community engagement and process for co-creation of resilience indicators

    A handbook for practitioners and researchers with guidelines for community engagement and process for co-creation of resilience indicators.

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    ICE Coastal Management Conference Presentation

    Presented initial results from the database analyses and synthesis

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    Reviewing the evidence for risk reduction by natural coastal habitats world-wide: When and where they have worked

    Presented initial results from the database analyses and synthesis

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