Data from: Evaluating management strategies to optimise coral reef ecosystem services
Mariska Weijerman, Jamison M. Gove, Ivor D. Williams, William J. Walsh, Dwayne Minton & Jeffrey J. Polovina
Earlier declines in marine resources, combined with current fishing pressures and devastating coral mortality in 2015, have resulted in a degraded coral reef ecosystem state at Puakō in West Hawaiʹi. Changes to resource management are needed to facilitate recovery of ecosystem functions and services. We developed a customised ecosystem model to evaluate the performance of alternative management scenarios at Puakō in the provisioning of ecosystem services to human users (marine tourists, recreational fishers) and enhancing...