Nyawira A. Muthiga

Research interests

Publications

• Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities

  One Earth · 2023 · 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.010

• Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

  Nature · 2021 · 10.1038/d41586-021-02041-4

• Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2020 · 10.1111/geb.13191

• Temperature patterns and mechanisms influencing coral bleaching during the 2016 El Niño

  Nature Climate Change · 2019 · 10.1038/s41558-019-0576-8

• Implementing a social-ecological systems framework for conservation monitoring: lessons from a multi-country coral reef program

  Biological Conservation · 2019 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108298

• Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 10.1038/s41559-019-0953-8

• Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems and human well-being

  Ecology and Society · 2016 · 10.5751/es-08173-210211

• Biogeography and Change among Regional Coral Communities across the Western Indian Ocean

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0093385

• Utility of primary scientific literature to environmental managers: An international case study on coral-dominated marine protected areas

  Ocean & Coastal Management · 2014 · 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.09.003

• Utility of primary scientific literature to environmental managers: An international case study on coral-dominated marine protected areas

  Ocean & Coastal Management · 2014 · 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.09.003

• Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries

  Global Environmental Change · 2012 · 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.002

• The way forward with ecosystem-based management in tropical contexts: Reconciling with existing management systems

  Marine Policy · 2011 · 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.02.014

• Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1106861108

• The way forward with ecosystem-based management in tropical contexts: Reconciling with existing management systems

  Marine Policy · 2011 · 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.02.014

• Associations between climate stress and coral reef diversity in the western Indian Ocean

  Global Change Biology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02395.x

• Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1890/080126

• Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem‐Based Management

  Conservation Biology · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01355.x

• Sea urchin overgrazing of seagrasses: A review of current knowledge on causes, consequences, and management

  Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science · 2008 · 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.05.005

• Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

  Science · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1152509

• Management of the Kenyan coast

  Ocean & Coastal Management · 2005 · 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2005.03.005

• Tropical Pacific Forcing of Decadal SST Variability in the Western Indian Ocean over the Past Two Centuries

  Science · 2000 · 10.1126/science.287.5453.617

• The effects of marine parks and fishing on coral reefs of northern Tanzania

  Biological Conservation · 1999 · 10.1016/s0006-3207(98)00123-2

• An ecological shift in a remote coral atoll of Belize over 25 years

  Environmental Conservation · 1998 · 10.1017/s0376892998000174

• Effect of Sea Urchin Reductions on Algae, Coral, and Fish Populations

  Conservation Biology · 1996 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010136.x

• Patterns of preedation on a sea urchin, Echinometra mathaei (de Blainville), on Kenyan coral reefs

  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · 1989 · 10.1016/0022-0981(89)90125-1

• Changes in Kenyan coral reef community structure and function due to exploitation

  Hydrobiologia · 1988 · 10.1007/bf00008136

• THE EFFECTS OF SALINITY STRESS ON THE RATES OF AEROBIC RESPIRATION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN THE HERMATYPIC CORAL SIDERASTREA SIDEREA

  Biological Bulletin · 1987 · 10.2307/1541699

• THE EFFECTS OF SALINITY STRESS ON THE RATES OF AEROBIC RESPIRATION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN THE HERMATYPIC CORAL SIDERASTREA SIDEREA

  Biological Bulletin · 1987 · 10.2307/1541699

Current projects

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