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Dynamics and Survival of Coral and Octocoral Juveniles following Disturbance on Patch Reefs of the Florida Reef Tract
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The article was published on 2014-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reef & Disturbance (geology).read more
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Variation in Coral Recruitment and Juvenile Distribution Along the Southeast Florida Reef Tract
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on 12 sites in Broward and Miami-Dade counties that have served as long-term stations for monitoring adult coral cover and demographics at each site.
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Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs.
TL;DR: The commonly observed high diversity of trees in tropical rain forests and corals on tropical reefs is a nonequilibrium state which, if not disturbed further, will progress toward a low-diversity equilibrium community as mentioned in this paper.
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Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs
TL;DR: The results suggest that the thermal tolerances of reef-building corals are likely to be exceeded every year within the next few decades, and suggests that unrestrained warming cannot occur without the loss and degradation of coral reefs on a global scale.
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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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The Role of Disturbance in Natural Communities
TL;DR: For many communities, a self-reproducing climax state may only exist as an average condition on a relatively large spatial scale, and even that has yet to be rigorously demonstrated.