Worldwide Coral Reef Map
Unep regional seas directories and bibliographies.
Worldwide coral reef map. Coral reefs of the world. Atlantic and eastern pacific. Data from coral reef watch daily global 5km coral bleaching heat stress monitoring product suite version 3 liu et al. Global map of shallow tropical coral reefs gridded at 500 m resolution for use in the reefs at risk revisited project.
Global warming has led to changes in the world s coral reefs. As the ocean grows warmer it acidifies leaving less and less oxygen in the water for life to thrive on. 1 2 and 3 the united nations environment programme world conservation monitoring centre unep wcmc world atlas of coral reefs several country scale atlas publications and a few other resources. A list of online reefgis maps.
However the last report was released in 2008 creating a significant gap in contemporary understanding of global status and trends in coral reefs which was recognised in un environment assembly resolution 2 12 on coral reefs which called on un environment to. The khaled bin sultan living oceans foundation has completed the world reef map an online interactive coral reef atlas that allows users to explore all of the coral reefs and shallow water marine habitats mapped on the global reef expedition. Noaa coral reef watch maximum bleaching alert area map for january december 2016. Map of reefs surveyed as part of the xl catlin seaview survey.
Corals can be fragile and the changes we ve already seen in the climate have led to great areas of die off in some reef areas. With over 65 000 square kilometers of shallow water marine ecosystems mapped this is by far the. These included the millennium coral reef project maps the international union for conservation of nature s iucn coral reefs of the world vol. The principal outputs of the gcrmn have been periodic global and regional assessments of the status and trends of coral reef ecosystems.
The global airborne observatory a lidar equipped laboratory designed to map coral reefs from above flying over st. Wells are posted with permission of the publishers iucn conservation monitoring center and united nations environment programme unep. Coral reefs of the world volume 1. These maps from the book coral reefs of the world by susan m.