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Title: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025 – Chapter 6 – Pacific
Authors: Jérémy Wicquart, Amanda Ford, Erica K. Towle, Tom Heintz, Nicole Pedersen, Katie Lubarsky, Beverly French, Stuart Sandin, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Laurent Wantiez, Johanna Johnson, Mohsen Kayal, Mehdi Adjeroud, Mollie Asbury, Sandrine Job, Liam J. Clegg, Simon Donner, Aranteiti Tekiau, Victor Nestor, Nicolas Guillemot, Serge Planes.
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Date: 27th August 2026
Institution: Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.PAC
Part of: Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025
Cite this chapter: Wicquart, J., Ford, A., Towle, E. K., Heintz, T., et al. (2026). Chapter 6 – Pacific. In González-Rivero, M., et al. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). https://doi.org/10.59387/LFPR6347.PAC
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Supplementary Material: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21824430
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With thanks to the co-authors of this chapter:
Jérémy Wicquart, Amanda Ford, Erica K. Towle, Tom Heintz, Nicole Pedersen, Katie Lubarsky, Beverly French, Stuart Sandin, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Laurent Wantiez, Johanna Johnson, Mohsen Kayal, Mehdi Adjeroud, Mollie Asbury, Sandrine Job, Liam J. Clegg, Simon Donner, Aranteiti Tekiau, Victor Nestor, Nicolas Guillemot, Serge Planes.
Edited by: Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero; Thomas Dallison; Jeremy Wicquart; Amanda Brigdale; Erica K. Towle; Murray Logan; Emily K. Fobert; Francis Staub; Serge Planes.
With thanks to the data contributors:
Mehdi Adjeroud; Abigail Alling; Phoebe Argyle; Gou Ava; Mary Bonin; Jonathan Booth; Tracey Boslogo; Sara Cannon; Yannick Chancerelle; Liam Clegg; Anne Cohen; Kitty Currier; Orla Doherty; Simon Donner; Janelle Eagle; Graham J. Edgar; Andy Estep; Viliami Fatongiatau; Martin Finau; Michael Fox; Jan Freiwald; Beverly French; Antoine Gilbert; Nicolas Guillemot; Tevita Havea; Tom Heintz; Andrew Hoey; Eryn Hooper; Peter Houk; Alec Hughes; Sandrine Job; Johanna Johnson; Jacinta Jonathan; Geoffrey Jones; Stacy Jupiter; Malnoa Karo; Mohsen Kayal; Adi Khen; Kelly Kozar; Uali Kula; July Kuri; Didier Labrousse; Florian Le Bail; Andy Lewis; Enelio Liufau; Naomi Longa; Sosefo Malau; Sangeeta Mangubhai; Ateliana Maugateau; Juan Mayorga; Mark Mccormick; Sheila Mckenna; Jenny Mihaly; Carol Milner; Bradley Moore; Kirby Morejohn; Elizah Nagombi; Stephen Neale; Victor Nestor; Mike Neuman; Poasi Ngaluafe; David Obura; Lizzi Oh; Selma Pamalok; Michael Parrish; Nicole Pedersen; Lucie Penin; Alain Pidjot; Serge Planes; Tiana Reimann; Geraldine Rengiil; Randi Rotjan; Stuart Sandin; Annisah Sapul; Gilles Siu; Patrick Smallhorn-West; Jennifer Smith; Lucy Southworth; Maya Srinivasan; Karen Stone; Rick D. Stuart-Smith; Heather Summers; Helen Sykes; Elizabeth Thompson; Erica K. Towle; Visesio Uluika; Schannel Van Dijken; Laurent Wantiez; Jane Waterhouse; David Welch; Yvonne Wong; Lindsay Young; Ute Zischka.
The GCRMN produces estimations regarding the status and trends of coral reefs using data acquired by the members of the GCRMN network. The data are collected following Data Sharing Agreements (DSA) with data contributors and as such the GCRMN is not the owner of datasets shared by its members. Therefore, for the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” report, the GCRMN is unable to share the raw datasets. However, some members of the GCRMN network and report contributors have made their datasets publicly available. For benthic cover monitoring data, such open access datasets are listed here.
All code used to produce the results and figures presented in the “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025” GCRMN report is openly available on a GitHub repository. This repository allows full reproducibility and transparency of the analyses.
