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MONNIOT, FRANÇOISE. "A new species of Monandrocarpa (Ascidiacea, Styelidae) from Vanuatu I. (South Pacific Ocean)." Zootaxa 2044, no. 1 (2009): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2044.1.5.

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The U.S Coral Reef Research Foundation collected by SCUBA various marine invertebrates in the islands of Vanuatu. Among them was a small bulbous ascidian settled on thin test stolons of another discrete ascidian being very similar in colour and shape. It is a new species of the genus Monandrocarpa (Styelidae) in which few species have been recorded. This genus is characterised by gonads in rows of hermaphrodite polycarps, each of them containing a single male vesicle. Other species in the same genus are discussed.

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Faivre, Gaëlle, Guilherme Vieira da Silva, Jim Aimbie, et al. "Coastal Processes within a Coral Reef Lagoon System: Erakor Lagoon, Efate Island, Vanuatu." Journal of Coastal Research 95, sp1 (2020): 1427. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/si95-276.1.

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KOMAI, TOMOYUKI, and PETER K. L. NG. "A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from coral reefs in the Indo-West Pacific." Zootaxa 3352, no. 1 (2012): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3352.1.4.

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A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab, Coralliocryptus caementa n. sp., is described from Indo-West Pacific coralreefs in the Ryukyu Islands (Japan), Vanuatu, and Comoros. Although the new genus exhibits superficial resemblance to theIphiculidae in having prominent vertical spiniform teeth on the cutting edges of the chela and the female abdomen consisting offreely articulated somites, the deeply excavated female sterno-abdominal cavity, which is completely covered by the abdomen,unambiguously places this unique taxon in the Leucosiidae. The highly eroded, coral-rubble mimic carapace s

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Glynn, Peter W. "Coral reef ecology." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 192, no. 1 (1995): 147–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(95)90053-5.

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Hubbard, J. A. E. B. "Coral reef ecology." Marine Geology 121, no. 3-4 (1994): 335–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(94)90040-x.

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Faivre, Gaelle, Oriane Lagrabe, Krishna Kotra, Rodger Tomlinson, Brendan Mackey, and Hong Zhang. "WAVE TRANSFORMATION WITHIN A CORAL REEF LAGOON SYSTEM, ERAKOR LAGOON, VANUATU." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36v (December 28, 2020): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36v.waves.38.

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Coral reefs encircle most of the islands in Vanuatu and provide natural breakwaters for coastal communities by reducing wave energy arriving at the shoreline acting to control both inundation and erosion. Climate Change is projected to both exacerbate coastal hazards and endanger corals. The aim of this paper is to better understand the parameters that govern hydrodynamics on fringing reef systems. The interaction between the depth, waves and currents are studied from measurements conducted in Erakor lagoon, Vanuatu.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/mPrG6NWL

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Sievers, Katie T., Eva C. McClure, Rene A. Abesamis, and Garry R. Russ. "Multi-Scale Coral Reef and Seascape Habitat Variables Combine to Influence Reef Fish Assemblages." Fishes 9, no. 4 (2024): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fishes9040137.

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While benthic characteristics of coral reef habitats are a major driver of the structure of coral reef fish assemblages, non-reef habitats adjacent to coral reefs (e.g., mangroves, seagrass beds, and macroalgal beds) can affect reef fish assemblages. Here, we investigate how reef fish assemblages respond to local-scale benthic habitats within a coral reef and larger-scale adjacent seascape features (habitats within 500 m of coral reefs) on Siquijor Island in the Philippines. We examined an abundance of species for the entire reef fish assemblage and within the assemblages of parrotfishes (subf

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Holbrook, Sally J. "Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes." Ecology 73, no. 5 (1992): 1935–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1940056.

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Sale, Peter F. "Taxonomy and coral reef ecology." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 9, no. 10 (1994): 398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(94)90063-9.

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UIBLEIN, FRANZ, DANIEL C. GLEDHILL, DIMITRI A. PAVLOV, TUAN ANH HOANG, and SHAKER SHAHEEN. "Three new goatfishes of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with a redescription of colour patterns in U. margarethae." Zootaxa 4683, no. 2 (2019): 151–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.1.

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For the goatfish genus Upeneus Cuvier 1829 (Mullidae), a new taxonomic species group called the “margarethae group” is established which can be distinguished from the six species of the most similar “tragula group” by a combination of the following characteristics: absence of dark pigmentation in the area of the first dorsal-fin tip, 21–25 total gill rakers and 28–30 lateral-line scales. Initially, three recently-described species have been included in the margarethae group: Upeneus margarethae Uiblein & Heemstra, 2010, known from the Indian Ocean including the Red Sea and from the Arafura

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Stachowitsch, Michael. "Coral Reef Restoration Handbook." Marine Ecology 29, no. 2 (2008): 317–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00241.x.

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Williams, Gareth J., Nicholas A. J. Graham, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, et al. "Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene." Functional Ecology 33, no. 6 (2019): 1014–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13290.

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Kench, Paul. "Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 89, no. 38 (2008): 352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008eo380005.

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Hoegh-Guldberg, O. "ECOLOGY: Complexities of Coral Reef Recovery." Science 311, no. 5757 (2006): 42–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1122951.

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Azra, Mohamad Nor, Hani Amir Aouissi, Walid Hamma, Mokhtar Guerzou, Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor, and Alexandru-Ionut Petrişor. "A Scientometric Macroanalysis of Coral Reef Research in the World." Ekológia (Bratislava) 42, no. 2 (2023): 108–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eko-2023-0013.

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Abstract Marine and coastal biodiversity is crucial to the planet’s functioning and offers ecosystem services that guarantee the health, wealth, and well-being of the entire humanity. This is why, evaluating the current body of research on coral reefs is essential for understanding the unprecedented growth of this field, which covers many topics including climate change, biotic interactions, bioresources, future bioprospecting, and biodiversity in general. Such an evaluation requires both descriptive summaries and co-citation analyses to understand the expansive nature of this particular resea

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Wild, Christian, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Malik S. Naumann, et al. "Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers." Marine and Freshwater Research 62, no. 2 (2011): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf10254.

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Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet. Scleractinian corals function as the primary reef ecosystem engineers, constructing the framework that serves as a habitat for all other coral reef-associated organisms. However, the coral’s engineering role is particularly susceptible to global climate change. Ocean warming can cause extensive mass coral bleaching, which triggers dysfunction of major engineering processes. Sub-lethal bleaching results in the reduction of both primary productivity and coral calcification. This may lead to changes in the release of

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Birkeland, C., A. Green, A. Lawrence, G. Coward, M. Vaeoso, and D. Fenner. "Different resiliencies in coral communities over ecological and geological time scales in American Samoa." Marine Ecology Progress Series 673 (September 2, 2021): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13792.

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In 1917, Alfred Mayor surveyed a 270 m transect on a reef flat on American Samoa. Eleven surveys were conducted on the transect from 1917 to 2019. The coral community on the reef crest was resilient over the century, occasionally being seriously damaged but always recovering rapidly. In contrast, the originally most dense coral community on the reef flat has been steadily deteriorating throughout the century. Resilience of coral communities in regions of high wave energy on the reef crests was associated with the important binding function of the crustose coralline alga (CCA) Porolithon onkode

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McManus, J. "Coral reef fishing and coral-algal phase shifts: implications for global reef status." ICES Journal of Marine Science 57, no. 3 (2000): 572–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.2000.0720.

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Randall, CJ, AP Negri, KM Quigley, et al. "Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene." Marine Ecology Progress Series 635 (February 6, 2020): 203–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13206.

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Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs to recover. While mitigation strategies for climate warming and other anthropogenic disturbances are implemented, coral restoration programmes are being established worldwide as an additional conservation measure to minimise coral loss and enhance coral recovery. Current restoration efforts predominantly rely on asexually produced coral fragments—a process with inherent practical constraints on the genetic diversity c

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Najmi, Nurul, Ananingtyas S. Darmarini, Nanda Muhammad Razi, Mai Suriani, and Samsul Kahar. "The Current Condition of Coral Reef and Fish Diversity in Gosong Island, Southwest Aceh." Jurnal Ilmiah Perikanan dan Kelautan 15, no. 1 (2023): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jipk.v15i1.35917.

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Highlight Research The current condition coverage percentage of coral reefs in the waters of Gosong Island was 55% Percentage of dead coral with algae founded on Gosong Island is 28% On Gosong Island there are 11 families, namely Acroporidae, Agariciidae, Faviidae, Fungiidae, Merulinidae , Mussidae, Dendrophylliidae, Oculinidae, Pectiniidae, Pocilloporidae and Poritidae Abstract The coral reef ecosystem is an important ecosystem; its existence has a very close relationship with the surrounding ecosystem and the reef fish community. The direct and indirect dependence of reef fish on coral reefs

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Lesser, Michael P., Marc Slattery, and Curtis D. Mobley. "Biodiversity and Functional Ecology of Mesophotic Coral Reefs." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 49, no. 1 (2018): 49–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110617-062423.

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Mesophotic coral reefs, currently defined as deep reefs between 30 and 150 m, are linked physically and biologically to their shallow water counterparts, have the potential to be refuges for shallow coral reef taxa such as coral and sponges, and might be a source of larvae that could contribute to the resiliency of shallow water reefs. Mesophotic coral reefs are found worldwide, but most are undescribed and understudied. Here, we review our current knowledge of mesophotic coral reefs and their functional ecology as it relates to their geomorphology, changes in the abiotic environment along dep

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Misman, Nurul Nadiah, Muhammad Noor Amin Zakariah, Wan Nurzalia Wan Saelan, Hasrizal Shaari, and Khairul Arifin Mohd Noh. "A Review: Modern Coral Characterization Studies in Malaysia." ILMU KELAUTAN: Indonesian Journal of Marine Sciences 28, no. 4 (2023): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ik.ijms.28.4.351-368.

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Coral reefs are highly diverse and productive ecosystem in the ocean that provides various goods services to human and environment. Located within the renowned ‘Coral Triangle’ region, Malaysia is one the thriving countries in Southeast Asia that possess rich marine resources and coral reefs. Like other coral reef around the world, coral reefs in Malaysia are exposed to multiple threat that jeopardize their well-being. Those relying on these ecosystems may face severe consequences if they are lost. In recent decades, research on characterizing modern coral reefs has increased in Malaysia, incl

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Lantz, Coulson A., William Leggat, Jessica L. Bergman, et al. "Will daytime community calcification reflect reef accretion on future, degraded coral reefs?" Biogeosciences 19, no. 3 (2022): 891–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-891-2022.

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Abstract. Coral bleaching events continue to drive the degradation of coral reefs worldwide, causing a shift in the benthic community from coral- to algae-dominated ecosystems. Critically, this shift may decrease the capacity of degraded coral reef communities to maintain net positive accretion during warming-driven stress events (e.g., reef-wide coral bleaching). Here we measured rates of net ecosystem calcification (NEC) and net ecosystem production (NEP) on a degraded coral reef lagoon community (coral cover < 10 % and algae cover > 20 %) during a reef-wide bleaching event in February

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Lin, Chiahsin. "International Symposium on New Frontiers in Reef Coral Biotechnology (5 May 2022, Taiwan)." Applied Sciences 12, no. 11 (2022): 5758. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12115758.

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Given the global threats towards coral reefs, this conference’s central theme, “Reef coral biotechnology”, is particularly timely. Our goal is to promote communication and dialogue in this field among marine researchers within and outside of Taiwan, and we have invited experts in the fields of coral reef ecology, physiology, conservation, and biotechnology to discuss their recent findings with a cadre of both local and foreign scientists, as well as students (undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. students). We envision that these presentations will segue into discussions and collaborations that s

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Tupper, Mark. "The Ecology Of Coral Reef Fishes Revisited." Ecology 84, no. 6 (2003): 1645–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1645:teocrf]2.0.co;2.

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Kahng, S. E., J. R. Garcia-Sais, H. L. Spalding, et al. "Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems." Coral Reefs 29, no. 2 (2010): 255–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0593-6.

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Garren, Melissa, and Farooq Azam. "New directions in coral reef microbial ecology." Environmental Microbiology 14, no. 4 (2011): 833–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02597.x.

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Knowlton, N. "ECOLOGY: Coral Reef Biodiversity-Habitat Size Matters." Science 292, no. 5521 (2001): 1493–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1061690.

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van Woesik, R., T. Tomascik, and S. Blake. "Coral assemblages and physico-chemical characteristics of the Whitsunday Islands: evidence of recent community changes." Marine and Freshwater Research 50, no. 5 (1999): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf97046.

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Benthic communities were assessed and 22 environmental variables were monitored at seven leeward localities (L1ŒL7) in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. L1 was near the Proserpine and O’Connell river mouths and L7 ~80 km north of the river mouths. Distinct physico Œchemical and biological gradients were evident. Sparse scleractinian coral communities, dominated by faviids, Montipora spp. and encrusting Porites colonies, were present at L1, L2 and L3, whereas diverse reef-building communities, dominated by Acropora spp., were more common at and beyond L4. The number of coral recrui

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Morgan, K. M., and P. S. Kench. "Carbonate production rates of encruster communities on a lagoonal patch reef: Vabbinfaru reef platform, Maldives." Marine and Freshwater Research 65, no. 8 (2014): 720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf13155.

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Coral reefs are formed by the growth and calcification of primary coral framework and secondary encrusting organisms. Future scenarios of reef health predict global declines in coral cover and an increase in the relative importance of encrusting organisms to gross reef calcification. Numerous coral growth studies are available; however, there are few quantitative estimates of secondary carbonate production on reefs. The present study used vertically orientated PVC pipe to generate rates of carbonate production (g cm–2 year–1) by encruster communities on Vabbinfaru reef platform, Maldives (4°18

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Williams, Gareth J., and Nicholas A. J. Graham. "Rethinking coral reef functional futures." Functional Ecology 33, no. 6 (2019): 942–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13374.

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Kornder, Niklas A., Jose Cappelletto, Benjamin Mueller, et al. "Implications of 2D versus 3D surveys to measure the abundance and composition of benthic coral reef communities." Coral Reefs 40, no. 4 (2021): 1137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02118-6.

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AbstractA paramount challenge in coral reef ecology is to estimate the abundance and composition of the communities residing in such complex ecosystems. Traditional 2D projected surface cover estimates neglect the 3D structure of reefs and reef organisms, overlook communities residing in cryptic reef habitats (e.g., overhangs, cavities), and thus may fail to represent biomass estimates needed to assess trophic ecology and reef function. Here, we surveyed the 3D surface cover, biovolume, and biomass (i.e., ash-free dry weight) of all major benthic taxa on 12 coral reef stations on the island of

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Apprill, A., H. Holm, AE Santoro, et al. "Microbial ecology of coral-dominated reefs in the Federated States of Micronesia." Aquatic Microbial Ecology 86 (April 22, 2021): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ame01961.

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Microorganisms are central to the functioning of coral reef ecosystems, but their dynamics are unstudied on most reefs. We examined the microbial ecology of shallow reefs within the Federated States of Micronesia. We surveyed 20 reefs surrounding 7 islands and atolls (Yap, Woleai, Olimarao, Kosrae, Kapingamarangi, Nukuoro, and Pohnpei), spanning 875053 km2. On the reefs, we found consistently higher coral coverage (mean ± SD = 36.9 ± 22.2%; max 77%) compared to macroalgae coverage (15.2 ± 15.5%; max 58%), and low abundances of fish. Reef waters had low inorganic nutrient concentrations and wer

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Chase, Tory J., and Mia O. Hoogenboom. "Differential Occupation of Available Coral Hosts by Coral-Dwelling Damselfish (Pomacentridae) on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef." Diversity 11, no. 11 (2019): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d11110219.

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Associations between habitat-forming, branching scleractinian corals and damselfish have critical implications for the function and trophic dynamics of coral reef ecosystems. This study quantifies how different characteristics of reef habitat, and of coral morphology, determine whether fish occupy a coral colony. In situ surveys of aggregative damselfish–coral associations were conducted at 51 different sites distributed among 22 reefs spread along >1700 km of the Great Barrier Reef, to quantify interaction frequency over a large spatial scale. The prevalence of fish–coral associations betw

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Medina-Valmaseda, Alexis Enrique, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Eric Jordan-Dahlgren, and Paul Blanchon. "The role of geomorphic zonation in long-term changes in coral-community structure on a Caribbean fringing reef." PeerJ 8 (October 22, 2020): e10103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10103.

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Ecological processes on coral reefs commonly have limited spatial and temporal scales and may not be recorded in their long-term geological history. The widespread degradation of Caribbean coral reefs over the last 40 years therefore provides an opportunity to assess the impact of more significant ecological changes on the geological and geomorphic structure of reefs. Here, we document the changing ecology of communities in a coral reef seascape within the context of its geomorphic zonation. By comparing basic ecological indices between historical and modern data we show that in 35 years the r

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Moritz, C., SJ Brandl, H. Rouzé, et al. "Long-term monitoring of benthic communities reveals spatial determinants of disturbance and recovery dynamics on coral reefs." Marine Ecology Progress Series 672 (August 19, 2021): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13807.

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Coral reefs across the globe are facing threats from a variety of anthropogenic disturbances. Consequently, the proportional representation of live scleractinian corals in the benthic community has declined substantially in many regions. In contrast, parts of the reef ecosystem around Mo’orea (French Polynesia) have displayed remarkable rebound potential. Nevertheless, detailed studies of when, where, and to what extent reefs have been disturbed and subsequently recovered in the different reef habitats are lacking. Using long-term monitoring data (2004-2018), we reveal that the spatiotemporal

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Céspedes-Rodríguez, EC, and E. Londoño-Cruz. "Gross calcium carbonate production in Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reefs (Gorgona Island, Colombia)." Marine Ecology Progress Series 665 (April 29, 2021): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13643.

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The production and accumulation of carbonate reef framework is the positive component of reef development. The main organisms participating in this process are corals and crustose coralline algae (CCA) because their combined calcareous skeletons construct and help to consolidate reef frameworks. We assessed the contribution (i.e. gross production) of corals and CCA to the calcium carbonate (CaCO3) budget of the 2 largest and most developed reefs of Gorgona Island (Pacific coast of Colombia). On each zone (back reef [BR], reef flat [RP], reef front [RF], and reef slope [RS]) of these reefs, we

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Steneck, Robert S., and Rubén Torres. "Trends in Dominican Republic Coral Reef Biodiversity 2015–2022." Diversity 15, no. 3 (2023): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15030389.

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In 2015, we initiated a country-wide coral reef ecosystem-monitoring program in the Dominican Republic (DR) to establish biodiversity baselines against which trends in the most important components of coral reef ecosystem’s structure and function could be tracked. Replicate transects were set at a 10 m depth at each of the 12 coral reef sites within 6 DR regions in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022. We quantified the species-level abundances of adult and juvenile corals, reef fishes, sea urchins, lionfishes, and algal functional groups. Country-wide, coral cover and reef fishes have declined. The ste

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DeMartini, Edward E., Todd W. Anderson, Jean C. Kenyon, James P. Beets, and Alan M. Friedlander. "Management implications of juvenile reef fish habitat preferences and coral susceptibility to stressors." Marine and Freshwater Research 61, no. 5 (2010): 532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf09141.

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In the Hawaiian Archipelago, shelter-dependent juvenile stages of many reef fishes and their coral habitats are increasingly put at risk by multiple anthropogenic stressors (e.g. overfishing and habitat loss, coral bleaching and sedimentation, respectively). We assessed coral bleaching (to identify relative susceptibility among growth forms) and the use v. availability of structurally complex and simple corals by juvenile reef fishes in Hawai'i. We use these data in a model that identifies habitats and resource species for managing reef fisheries and conserving coral habitats. Many juvenile re

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Larkum, A. W. D., I. R. Kennedy, and W. J. Muller. "Nitrogen fixation on a coral reef." Marine Biology 98, no. 1 (1988): 143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00392669.

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Dorenbosch, M., MGG Grol, I. Nagelkerken, and G. van der Velde. "Distribution of coral reef fishes along a coral reef-seagrass gradient: edge effects and habitat segregation." Marine Ecology Progress Series 299 (2005): 277–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps299277.

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Schleyer, M. H., and L. Celliers. "Coral dominance at the reef - sediment interface in marginal coral communities at Sodwana Bay, South Africa." Marine and Freshwater Research 54, no. 8 (2003): 967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf02049.

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Sedimentation is an important factor that influences the composition of coral communities. The high-latitude, marginal coral community in the central reef complex at Sodwana Bay, South Africa, is subjected to sedimentation at the reef–sediment interface. A lens of bioclastic sediment surrounds the sandstone reefs in the area and acts as a scouring and smothering agent. This affects the composition of the subcommunity on the reef margin at the reef–sediment interface. The interface was studied on two reefs in the complex and their subcommunities did not differ. Alcyoniidae and Scleractinia (34.

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Cruz-García, R., A. P. Rodríguez-Troncoso, F. A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza, A. Mayfield, and A. L. Cupul-Magaña. "Ephemeral effects of El Niño–Southern Oscillation events on an eastern tropical Pacific coral community." Marine and Freshwater Research 71, no. 10 (2020): 1259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf18481.

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Coral-reef ecosystems of the central Mexican Pacific have been routinely affected by both moderate and severe El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events over the past 20 years. Such conditions are associated with abnormally high (1997–1998, 2002–2003, 2009–2010, and 2015–2016; ‘El Niño’) and low (1999–2000, 2008–2009, and 2010–2011; ‘La Niña’) seawater temperatures. Because few studies have documented how ENSO events affect both corals and key coral competitors such as macroalgae, we evaluated the short- and long-term changes in the cover of three reef coral genera, namely, Pocillopora, Pavona

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Cheng, Yu-Rong, Chi-Hsiang Chin, Ding-Fa Lin, and Chao-Kang Wang. "The Probability of an Unrecoverable Coral Community in Dongsha Atoll Marine National Park Due to Recurrent Disturbances." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (2020): 9052. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12219052.

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In recent decades, coral reefs worldwide have been impacted annually by climate change and anthropogenic impacts. Marine parks are utilized to protect coral reef ecosystems and to ensure it is in sustainable use. In the present study, a 15-year change in coverage and composition of a hard coral community at Dongsha Atoll Marine National Park (DAMNP) was examined from 2005 to 2019. The reef has experienced several disturbances, including 11 typhoons and six coral bleaching events. A 34.39% decline in coral coverage had been recorded over the past 15 years in response to multiple and recurrent n

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Rogers, Alice, Julia L. Blanchard, and Peter J. Mumby. "Fisheries productivity under progressive coral reef degradation." Journal of Applied Ecology 55, no. 3 (2017): 1041–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13051.

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González-Murcia, S., AG Coppock, M. Ekins, CN Battershill, and GP Jones. "Effects of exposure, depth and aspect on sponge communities on a coral reef." Marine Ecology Progress Series 685 (March 10, 2022): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13981.

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Coral reef benthic communities include a wide range of taxa, but most attention has been given to hard coral assemblages, and how their cover and composition vary over strong spatial gradients. Much less is known about the spatial distribution and composition of coral reef sponge communities, which may become increasingly important on reefs with declining coral cover. Here, we examined the effects of exposure, depth, aspect and location on the cover and composition of sponge assemblages on a coral reef in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. We quantified sponge cover and species composition along rep

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L. Poulsen, Ann. "Coral reef gastropods - a sustainable resource?" Pacific Conservation Biology 2, no. 2 (1995): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc960142.

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Large, colourful coral reef gastropods including the Giant Triton Charonia tritonis,helmet shells (Cassidae), cowries (Cypraeidae) and volutes (Volutidae) are exploited in an unregulated and unsustainable way throughout much of the Indo-Pacific region. The consequences for their populations, for the populations of their prey or for the ecology of their habitats are rarely considered. Serious decline in stocks of edible coral reef molluscs through unregulated harvesting demonstrates the need for controls on the collection and trade of commercially important species. Continued, unrestricted coll

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Sievers, Katie T., Rene A. Abesamis, Abner A. Bucol, and Garry R. Russ. "Unravelling Seascape Patterns of Cryptic Life Stages: Non-Reef Habitat Use in Juvenile Parrotfishes." Diversity 12, no. 10 (2020): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d12100376.

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Juvenile fish often use alternative habitats distinct from their adult phases. Parrotfishes are an integral group of coral reef fish assemblages, are targeted in fisheries, are sensitive to reef disturbances, and have been documented as multiple-habitat users. Considering the abundance of research conducted on parrotfishes, very little is known about their juvenile ecology at the species level due to their cryptic and variable coloration patterns. We collected juvenile parrotfishes in non-reef habitats (macroalgal beds, seagrass beds, and lagoons) in the Philippines and used DNA analysis to de

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Cowburn, B., J. Graham, M. Schratzberger, et al. "Rocky reefs of St Helena and the tropical Atlantic: how the lack of coral and an isolated oceanic location drive unique inshore marine ecology." Marine Ecology Progress Series 663 (March 31, 2021): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps13633.

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This paper presents the first quantitative assessment of the rocky reef ecology of St Helena, a remote island in the central tropical Atlantic. Monitoring data were used to characterise different habitat types found around St Helena. These findings were compared with 9 other locations in the tropical Atlantic, in different biogeographic, oceanic and reef settings, along with the environmental variables known to limit coral reef formation. St Helena’s rocky and boulder reefs had ~50% cover dominated by turf and other filamentous algae, with lower levels of sessile invertebrates (15%) and macroa

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Pratchett, Morgan S., Ciemon F. Caballes, Jean-Paul A. Hobbs, et al. "Variation in the Physiological Condition of Common Coral Trout (Plectropomus leopardus) Unrelated to Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia." Fishes 8, no. 10 (2023): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fishes8100497.

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There are a wide variety of fishes that occur exclusively on coral reefs, though it is unclear to what extent these species (especially larger-bodied fisheries target species) are reliant on the specific reef habitat provided by corals. This study explored variation in the physiological condition of common coral trout (Plecropomus leopardus) on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, explicitly testing whether fish condition varied with local coral cover in the aftermath of severe mass bleaching and coral loss. Both the physiological condition (specifically, the length–weight relationships, hepatocyte

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