A study on the recovery of Tobago's coral reefs following the 2010 mass bleaching event.
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The juvenile distribution and the response of individual species to the bleaching event support the notion that Caribbean reefs are becoming dominated by weedy non-framework building taxa which are more resilient to disturbances.About:
This article is published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.The article was published on 2016-03-15 and is currently open access. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resilience of coral reefs & Environmental issues with coral reefs.read more
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Temperature regimes impact coral assemblages along environmental gradients on lagoonal reefs in Belize
Justin H. Baumann,Joseph E. Townsend,Travis A. Courtney,Hannah E. Aichelman,Sarah W. Davies,Fernando P. Lima,Karl D. Castillo +6 more
TL;DR: Investigation of coral community composition across three different temperature and productivity regimes along a nearshore-offshore gradient on lagoonal reefs of the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System suggests that corals utilizing these two life history strategies may be better suited to cope with warmer oceans and thus may warrant protective status under climate change.
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A Review of Research on the Mustard Hill Coral, Porites astreoides
TL;DR: Porites astreoides is a shallow species that is able to thrive in a variety of environmental conditions and has been a clear winner on Atlantic reefs in the last decades as mentioned in this paper .
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Recent dynamics on turbid-water corals reefs following the 2010 mass bleaching event in Tobago.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of mass coral bleaching and hydro-geomorphic setting (sheltereted vs. wave-exposed) on benthic community dynamics against the 2007 baseline.
Investigating the ability of coral reefs to protect shorelines in the Republic of Kiribati
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table of Contents ( Table of contents) of the paper this article and present the table of contents of the conference proceedings of this paper.
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Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Peter J. Mumby,Anthony J. Hooten,Robert S. Steneck,Paul F. Greenfield,Edgardo D. Gomez,C. D. Harvell,Peter F. Sale,Alasdair J. Edwards,Ken Caldeira,Nancy Knowlton,C. M. Eakin,Roberto Iglesias-Prieto,Nyawira A. Muthiga,Roger Bradbury,Alfonse M. Dubi,Marea E. Hatziolos +16 more
TL;DR: As the International Year of the Reef 2008 begins, scaled-up management intervention and decisive action on global emissions are required if the loss of coral-dominated ecosystems is to be avoided.
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Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results.
TL;DR: In this paper, five test runs were performed to assess possible bias when performing the loss on ignition (LOI) method to estimate organic matter and carbonate content of lake sediments.
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Confronting the coral reef crisis
TL;DR: The ecological roles of critical functional groups (for both corals and reef fishes) that are fundamental to understanding resilience and avoiding phase shifts from coral dominance to less desirable, degraded ecosystems are reviewed.
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Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef.
TL;DR: A dramatic phase shift has occurred in Jamaica, producing a system dominated by fleshy macroalgae (more than 90 percent cover), and immediate implementation of management procedures is necessary to avoid further catastrophic damage.
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