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Robert C. Carpenter
Researcher at California State University, Northridge
Publications - 81
Citations - 4677
Robert C. Carpenter is an academic researcher from California State University, Northridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coral reef & Reef. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 81 publications receiving 4050 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Carpenter include California State University & University of Western Australia.
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Recovery of Diadema antillarum reduces macroalgal cover and increases abundance of juvenile corals on a Caribbean reef.
TL;DR: Evidence of the initiation of such a reversal in Jamaica is presented, where shallow reefs at five sites along 8 km of coastline now are characterized by a sea urchin-grazed zone with a mean width of 60 m.
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Mass mortality ofDiadema antillarum
TL;DR: The mass mortality of the echinoid diadema antillarum Philippi in 1983/1984 resulted in dramatic changes in the benthic algal community as mentioned in this paper.
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Increasing relative abundance of Porites astreoides on Caribbean reefs mediated by an overall decline in coral cover
TL;DR: The findings indicate that community structure of Caribbean coral reefs is changing on a decadal time scale to become dominated by 'weedy' corals that form rapidly growing, small colonies that are short lived and quickly replaced.
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Herbivory, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Resilience: Response of a Coral Reef to a Large-Scale Perturbation
Thomas C. Adam,Russell J. Schmitt,Sally J. Holbrook,Andrew J. Brooks,Peter J. Edmunds,Robert C. Carpenter,Giacomo Bernardi +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence of a rapid increase in populations of herbivorous fishes following the most recent perturbation is presented, and it is shown that grazing by these herbivores has prevented the establishment of macroalgae following near complete loss of coral on offshore reefs.
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Algal Blooms on Coral Reefs: What Are the Causes?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the logic and efficacy of the tests presented by Lapointe (1997) on the causes of algal blooms on coral reefs as a test of the hypothesis that the reefs of Jamaica and southeast Florida had exceeded a threshold level of eutrophication that resulted in blooms of benthic algae.