Publications by authors named "Azton Howard"
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- People are teaming up to combine traditional knowledge from Indigenous communities with scientific methods to better understand changes in ocean life and help manage coastal areas.
- It's important for scientists and Indigenous partners to communicate clearly about what their monitoring results can and cannot tell us, so that these results can help in making better decisions.
- A specific study in northwest Australia showed that there can be a lot of uncertainty in measuring changes in fish populations, and adding credibility estimates to health assessments can help improve understanding and decision-making.
Management strategies designed to conserve coral reefs threatened by climate change need to incorporate knowledge of the spatial distribution of inter- and intra-specific genetic diversity. We characterized patterns of genetic diversity and connectivity using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in two reef-building corals to explore the eco-evolutionary processes that sustain populations in north-west Australia. Our sampling focused on the unique reefs of the Kimberley; we collected the broadcast spawning coral ( = 534) and the brooding coral ( = 612) across inter-archipelago (tens to hundreds of kilometres), inter-reef (kilometres to tens of kilometres) and within-reef (tens of metres to a few kilometres) scales.
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