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Published Research and Reports

Publications listed below are either authored by HIMARC ʻOhana members or utilize the HIMARC database.

2025

Hennessey S, Gove JM, Donovan MK (2025) Utility of indicator thresholds across spatial gradients for applications to ecosystem-based fisheries management. Ecosphere 16(7): e70307 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70307

2023

Donovan, M. K., Counsell, C. W. W., Donahue, M. J., Lecky, J., Gajdzik, L., Marcoux, S. D., Sparks, R., & Teague, C. (2023). Evidence for managing herbivores for reef resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2012), Article 20232101.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2101

Gove, J. M., Williams, G. J., Lecky, J., Brown, E., Conklin, E., Counsell, C., Davis, G., Donovan, M. K., Falinski, Kim., Kramer, L., Kozar, K., Li, N., Maynard, J. A., & McCutcheon, A. (2023). Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming. Nature, 621(7979), 536–542. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06394-w

2020

Oleson, K. L. L., Bagstad, K. J., Fezzi, C., Barnes, M. D., Donovan, M. K., Falinski, K. A., Gorospe, K. D., Htun, H., Lecky, J., Villa, F., & Wong, T. M. (2020). Linking land and sea through an ecological-economic model of coral reef recreation. Ecological Economics, 177, Article 106788.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106788

Friedlander, A. M., Donovan, M. K., DeMartini, E. E., & Bowen, B. W. (2020). Dominance of endemics in the reef fish assemblages of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Journal of Biogeography, 47(11), 2411–2422. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13945

2019

Jouffray, J.-B., Wedding, L. M., Norström, A. V., Donovan, M. K., Williams, G. J., Crowder, L. B., Erickson, A. L., Friedlander, A. M., Graham, N. A. J., Gove, J. M., Kappel, C. V., Kittinger, J. N., Lecky, J., Oleson, K. L. L., Selkoe, K. A., White, C., Williams, I. D., & Nyström, M. (2019). Parsing human and biophysical drivers of coral reef regimes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1896), Article 20182544. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2544

Friedlander, A. M., Donovan, M. K., Koike, H., Murakawa, P., & Goodell, W. (2019). Characteristics of effective marine protected areas in Hawaiʻi. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29(1), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3043

2018

Wedding, L. M., Lecky, J., Gove, J. M., Walecka, H. R., Donovan, M. K., Williams, G. J., Jouffray, J.-B., Crowder, L. B., Erickson, A., Falinski, K., Friedlander, A. M., Kappel, C. V., Kittinger, J. N., McCoy, K., Norström, A., Nyström, M., Oleson, K. L. L., Stamoulis, K. A., White, C., & Selkoe, K. A. (2018). Advancing the integration of spatial data to map human and natural drivers on coral reefs. PLOS ONE, 13(3), Article e0189792. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189792

Donovan, M. K., Friedlander, Alan M., Lecky, J., Jouffray, Jean-Baptiste, Williams, G. J., Wedding, L. M., Crowder, L. B., Erickson, A. L., Graham, N. A. J., Gove, J. M., Kappel, C. V., Karr, K., Kittinger, J. N., Norström, A. V., Nyström, M., Oleson, K. L. L., Stamoulis, K. A., White, C., Williams, I. D., & Selkoe, K. A. (2018). Combining fish and benthic communities into multiple regimes reveals complex reef dynamics. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 16866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35057-4

Weijerman, M., Veazey, L., Yee, S., Vaché, K., Delevaux, J. M. S., Donovan, M. K., Falinski, K., Lecky, J., & Oleson, K. L. L. (2018). Managing local stressors for coral reef condition and ecosystem services delivery under climate scenarios. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, Article 425. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00425

Stamoulis, K. A., Delevaux, J. M. S., Williams, I. D., Poti, M., Lecky, J., Costa, B., Kendall, M. S., Pittman, S. J., Donovan, M. K., Wedding, L. M., & Friedlander, A. M. (2018). Seascape models reveal places to focus coastal fisheries management. Ecological Applications, 28(4), 910–925. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1696

2017

Friedlander, A. M., Donovan, M. K., Stamoulis, K. A., Williams, I. D., Brown, E. K., Conklin, E. J., DeMartini, E. E., Rogers, K. S., Sparks, R. T., & Walsh, W. J. (2017). Human-induced gradients of reef fish declines in the Hawaiian Archipelago viewed through the lens of traditional management boundaries. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 27(1), 146–157. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2662

2016

Costa, B. M., Kendall, M. S., & Poti, M. (Eds.). (2016). A marine biogeographic assessment of the Main Hawaiian Islands (NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 214). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-214

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