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World Seas: an Environmental Evaluation Chapter 26 - The Spratly Islands

Ma. Carmen, A. Ablan-Lagman

The Spratly Islands are a group of low islands, cays, banks, shoals, rocks, and reefs that are scattered in the southern South China Sea. They are fou...

13 - The use of PSSAs in the South China Sea

Robert Beckman,  Leonardo Bernard

Several international shipping routes pass through the South China Sea. International shipping poses a substantial risk of oil pollution which could h...

A multi-scale biophysical model to inform regional management of coral reefs in the western Philippines and South China Sea

Cesar L. Villanoy,  Porfirio M. Aliño,  J. Melbourne-Thomas,  C.R. Johnson,  R.C. Geronimo,  G.G. Gurney

The health and functioning of coral reef ecosystems worldwide is in decline, and in the face of increasing anthropogenic stress, the rate of decline o...

Marine fishes of Palawan, Philippines: Species diversity, new records, and conservation status

Rodulf Anthony T. Balisco,  Benjamin J. Gonzales,  Victor S. Ticzon,  Badi R. Samaniego,  Te-Yu Liao

The Palawan archipelago is considered as the Philippines’ last ecological frontier, a Man and Biosphere Reserve, and a priority conservation area beca...

World Seas: an Environmental Evaluation Chapter 23 - The Philippines

Porfirio M. Aliño,  Wilfredo Y. Licuanan,  Reine W. Cabreira

The Philippines is a large archipelago of over 7000 islands, mostly lined by coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests, and surrounded by wa...