Watershed processes from ridge to reef: consequences of feral ungulates for coral reef and effects of watershed management

Gordon Tribble; Jonathan Stock; Jim Jacobi

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Watershed processes from ridge to reef: consequences of feral ungulates for coral reef and effects of watershed management

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Gordon Tribble, Jonathan Stock, Jim Jacobi

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

Molokai’s south shore has some of Hawaii’s most extensive and best-developed coral reefs. Historic terrigenous sedimentation appears to have impacted coral growth along several miles of fringing reef. The land upslope of the reef consists of small watersheds with streams that flow intermittently to the ocean. A USGS gage at the outlet of one of the most impacted watersheds (Kawela) recorded an average suspended sediment discharge of 1350 tons per square mile between 2006 and 2011.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Tribble, Gordon; Stock, Jonathan; Jacobi, Jim. 2016. Watershed processes from ridge to reef: consequences of feral ungulates for coral reef and effects of watershed management. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.