Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association

The Tenth MASMA Grantees Meeting was held in Mombasa, Kenya from 21-22 October 2011. Below are the documents from the Meeting:

Download the Meeting Programme

Download the Book of Abstracts

Projects' Presentations:

i) Preparing for climate change by identifying effective coral reef fisheries and protected area management options in the Western Indian Ocean

ii) Functional connectivity of south-east African reefs inferred from the genetic structure of two scleractinian corals

iii) Effects of global warming on corals disease outbreaks in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO)

iv) Coral reefs and global change – a historical perspective spanning the western Indian Ocean

v) Modeling the effects of climate change on the distribution of shared fishery species in the subtropical Western Indian Ocean

vi) The future of coral reefs in the WIO region: Influence of climate change on the sexual reproduction and recruitment of reef-building corals

vii) Resilience and adaptation of mangroves and dependent communities in the WIO region to the impacts of climate change

viii) Adapting to climate variability: Coping with short term climate variability through seasonal prediction and building social resilience: Part I and Part II

ix) Understanding and predicting responses of mangrove trees and formations to climate change in the Western Indian Ocean: Part I and Part II

x) Assessing the feasibility of REDD+ for the mangrove forests of western Madagascar

xi) The preparedness of coastal governance for climate change: insights from South Africa and Mozambique

xii) Evaluating current responses and projecting the effects of climate change on WIO coral reef ecosystems from historical environmental variability