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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Functional consequences of the long-term decline of reef-building corals in the Caribbean: evidence of across-reef functional convergence
Nuria Estrada-Saldívar,Eric Jordán-Dalhgren,Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez,Chris T. Perry,Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip +4 more
TL;DR: How coral communities have changed in the northern sector of the Mexican Caribbean between 1985 and 2016 is evaluated, and the implications for the maintenance of physical reef functions in the back- and fore-reef zones are evaluated.
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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,Travis A. Courtney,Travis A. Courtney,Hannah E. Aichelman,Sarah W. Davies,Sarah W. Davies,Fernando P. Lima,Karl D. Castillo +9 more
TL;DR: Investigating 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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Research gaps of coral ecology in a changing world.
TL;DR: The results reinforce the notion that corals are sensitive to anthropogenic changes and reveal the scarcity of information on coral responses to pollution, tourism, overfishing and acidification, particularly in mesophotic ecosystems and in ecoregions outside the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean.
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Nearshore coral growth declining on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.
Justin H. Baumann,Justin B. Ries,John P. Rippe,Travis A. Courtney,Travis A. Courtney,Travis A. Courtney,Hannah E. Aichelman,Hannah E. Aichelman,Isaac T. Westfield,Karl D. Castillo +9 more
TL;DR: It is postulate that the decline in skeletal extension rates for nearshore corals is driven primarily by the combined effects of long-term ocean warming and increasing exposure to higher levels of land-based anthropogenic stressors, with acute thermally induced bleaching events playing a lesser role.
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The relationship between macroalgae taxa and human disturbance on central Pacific coral reefs
TL;DR: This article examined differences in coral and algal community compositions and their response to human disturbance and past heat stress, by analyzing 25 sites along a gradient of human disturbance in Majuro and Arno Atolls of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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Shifts in coral-assemblage composition do not ensure persistence of reef functionality.
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip,Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet,Guillermo Horta-Puga,Roberto Iglesias-Prieto +3 more
TL;DR: It is shown that shifting coral assemblages result in rapid losses in coral-community calcification and reef rugosity that are independent of changes in the total abundance of reef corals, considerably higher than those recently attributed to climate change.
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Coral bleaching and disease combine to cause extensive mortality on reefs in US Virgin Islands
TL;DR: While coral mortality from bleaching events has been well documented, this study shows that only with frequent monitoring would these post-bleaching mortality patterns and presence of pathogenic disease be detected.
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Bleaching and hurricane disturbances to populations of coral recruits in Belize
TL;DR: Effects of bleaching/hurricane disturbance on community structure were spatially patchy, and it is suggested that such patchiness may arise from variable cover of protective microhabitat and/or different storm conditions mediated by proximity to reef cuts (breaks in the reef crest).
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Sexual reproduction by the Caribbean reef corals Montastrea annularis and M. cavernosa
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Disease incidence is related to bleaching extent in reef-building corals.
Marilyn E. Brandt,John McManus +1 more
TL;DR: A longitudinal study of corals in the Florida Keys was conducted during the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event to quantify bleaching extent and disease incidence in corals, and to determine whether they were related or if they acted as discrete phenomena.