coral mortality
Bleaching, energetics, and coral mortality risk: Effects of temperature, light, and sediment regime
... increased mortality (Finstad et al. 2004). Because coral energy balance is a function of phototrophy (which is influenced by bleaching status and light regime: ...on mortality risk is likely to be ...
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Selective coral mortality associated with outbreaks of Acanthaster planci L. in Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea
... extensive coral depletion throughout Bootless ...of coral loss reported at each site, but coral mortality reflects the cumulative impacts of ...extensive coral mortality over vast ...
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Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality
... to coral mortality can be positive (Wilson et al ...of coral-reef fisheries (Westmacott et al ...and coral reef degradation for reef-based fisheries are, however, not known, but it is expected ...
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Rapid coral mortality following doldrums like conditions on Iriomote, Japan
... This bleaching event was different to typical thermal bleaching in a number of important ways. In particular, rapid tissue mortal- ity, an atypical hierarchy of susceptibility, and the occurrence of the event in early ...
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Selective impact of disease on coral communities: outbreak of white syndrome causes significant total mortality of Acropora plate corals
... in mortality rates of corals following the 2008 outbreak of WS at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian ...total mortality of 36% of colonies across all surveyed sites and ...Total mortality varied ...
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Post-settlement growth and mortality rates of juvenile scleractinian corals in Moorea, French Polynesia versus Trunk Reef, Australia
... density, mortality and growth rates of juvenile corals, whereas differences at the larger geographic scale were mostly related to differences in the composition of juvenile and adult coral ...adult ...
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Synchronous behavioural shifts in reef fishes linked to mass coral bleaching
... On reefs with high coral mortality, the probability of aggressive encounters between 4... heterospecific butterflyfishes decreased from 0.15 ±0.02 95% confidence interval to 0.05.[r] ...
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Projected changes to growth and mortality of Hawaiian corals over the next 100 years
... stress mortality event module. This module calculates eventual coral mortality associated with episodic bleaching ...DHM. Mortality levels are then assigned to a particular level of DHM ...
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Coral-dwelling fishes resistant to bleaching but not to mortality of host corals
... that coral reef ecosystems currently face (Hoegh-Guldberg 1999, Wilkinson ...2007). Coral decline due to bleaching can have far-reach- ing and detrimental consequences for organisms that rely on corals for ...
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Depth-dependent mortality of reef corals following a severe bleaching event: implications for thermal refuges and population recovery
... of coral reef ...priority. Coral bleaching mortality often diminishes with increasing depth, but clear depth zonation of coral communities and putative limited overlap in species composition ...
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Doom and boom on a resilient reef: climate change, algal overgrowth and coral recovery
... bleaching, coral cover was severely reduced, to values around 20– 30% by July–August ...The coral mortality was followed by an extraordinary bloom of the brown seaweed Lobophora variegata, apparently ...
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Identifying oceanic thermal anomalies in the coral triangle region
... the Coral Triangle region, and other reef locations that span the equator, there are two annual temperature peaks corresponding to the northward and southward relative transits of the ...anomalies. Coral ...
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Prioritising invasive species control actions : evaluating effectiveness, costs, willingness to pay and social acceptance
... nature of the model, estimates of coral cover arising from donkey control were estimated beyond the possible.. range for coral cover.[r] ...
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Coral bioindicators of environmental conditions on coastal coral reefs
... of coral nubbins sourced from (a) inner zone, and (b) outer zone, and transplanted along an environmental gradient in the Whitsunday ...a Coral Health Monitoring Chart (Siebeck et ...
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A Method for the Geometric Analysis of Rugose Coral Growth Ridges as Paleoenvironmental Indicators in the Middle Devonian Hungry Hollow Member of Widder Formation, Michigan Basin
... the coral polyp during longitudinal corallite ...to coral growth and analyzed in reference to possible paleoenvironmental ...two-dimensional coral slice, although slice location was found to ...
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Coral bioindicators of environmental conditions on coastal coral reefs
... of coral distribution in the Whitsunday region might be determined by light ...decreasing coral reef development coincided with increased concentrations of suspended sediments (derived from AVHRR imagery) ...
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Lonnstedt et al 2014 Journal of Animal Ecology
... hard coral (Pocillopora damicornis) was collected from reefs around Lizard ...dead coral had the same structure and amount of shelter space as live coral, but lacked the live coral tissue and ...
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Ecosystem regime shifts disrupt trophic structure
... Key words: coral reef fish; coral bleaching; functional group; habitat degradation; mesopredator; trophic level; trophic pyramid; coral reef ecology.. Regime shifts have been documented [r] ...
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Coral-dwelling fish moderate bleaching susceptibility of coral hosts
... whether coral- dwelling damselfish enhance coral health before, during, and after thermal bleaching ...the coral-associated damselfish, Dascyllus aruanus, and its coral host was chosen due to ...
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Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogenization of reef fish assemblages
... Branching Porites -15.049 -21.725 -8.373 -4.44 265 <0.001 Mixed coral -17.875 -23.882 -11.867 -5.86 265 <0.001 Soft coral -30.927 -37.603 -24.251 -9.12 265 <0.001 Fish species richness Branching ...
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