Coral Reef Ecosystems
Phytoplankton phenology indices in coral reef ecosystems: Application to ocean-color observations in the Red Sea
... in coral reef ...and reef-bound coastal waters, the performance of OC-CCI chlorophyll data is shown to be comparable with the performance of other standard chlorophyll products for the global ...six ...
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Heavy metals distribution in the coral reef ecosystems of the Northern Red Sea
... from coral tissue, and coral feeding (Brown 1987; Hanna and Muir 1990; Ferrier-Pagès et ...by coral feeding can be accomplished in two ...in coral reef eco- systems in the Northern Red ...
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Quantifying climatological ranges and anomalies for Pacific coral reef ecosystems
... for coral reef ...to coral reefs [12], serving as a proxy for eutrophic conditions, which can affect the thermal tolerance of corals [46], and as a proxy for increased turbidity and sedimentation, ...
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Habitats as surrogates of taxonomic and functional fish assemblages in coral reef ecosystems: a critical analysis of factors driving effectiveness
... In coral reef ecosystems, conclusions remain largely ...if coral reef habitats were effective surrogates for fishes, invertebrates, corals, and algal ...
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Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems
... the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate variation and ...live coral cover has been well documented across large spatial and temporal scales, the associated effects on fish have ...conserving coral ...
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Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems
... the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate variation and ...live coral cover has been well documented across large spatial and temporal scales, the associated effects on fish have ...conserving coral ...
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A critique of a method to determine long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems
... many coral reef ecosystems, and their decline or loss is by itself cause for serious concern, no evidence is presented to support the proposition that they are of equal importance to coral ...
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Trophodynamics as a tool for understanding coral reef ecosystems
... by coral reef grazers has uncovered trophic links previously unknown in herbivorous fishes in Hawai’i (Stamoulis et ...in coral reefs and other marine ...
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Problems of studying coral-reef ecosystems
... Such endeavour is associated with a number of important general biological considerations: (1) the building of self-contained natural ecosystems and biocoenoses; (2)[r] ...
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Microbial indicators of environmental perturbations in coral reef ecosystems
... for coral reef ecosystem health [9 – ...on coral reefs [12–14]; they form intimate associ- ations with the coral reef benthos [15 – 17], and they contribute significantly to host health ...
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Some Notes on the Regeneration of Coral Reef Ecosystems
... emerging ecosystems are the most eurybiontic, so-called opportunis- tic form: Pocillopora damicomis , Acropora formosa , ...of coral ecosystems, as a rule, begins with buildings chain Cateniporidae ...
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Symbiotic pathways of carbon in coral reef ecosystems
... CONSERVATION, TRANSLOCATION AND RECYCLING OF NUTRIENTS AND ENERGY DERIVED FROM SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS Given an eventual understanding of the magnitude of organic car[r] ...
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The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems
... faster coral recovery rates than areas subject to fishing pressure, reinforcing the importance of local herbivore management (Mumby and Harborne, ...from coral to algal dominance, herbivory was a weaker ...
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Coral Reef Conservation Program. nternational. NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program International Strategy
... Coral reef ecosystems have great economic, social, and cultural importance to communities, businesses and nations around the ...These ecosystems provide a wide range of valuable ecological ...
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A National CORAL REEF ACTION STRATEGY
... destruction, coral reef ecosystems are deteriorating worldwide at alarming ...on coral reefs is further exacerbated by the complexity and variability of reef ecosystems in space ...
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Coral Reef Monitoring and antenna Design
... from coral reef ecosystems in Florida, the Caribbean, Saipan, and ...provide reef managers and scientists with a suite of options for monitoring, allowing the selection of the most appropriate ...
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Rethinking coral reef functional futures
... of coral reef ecosystems. Early on in the evolution of coral reef science, research focused on the role played by gradients in natural biophysical forcings such as wave energy, ...
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Coral reef mesopredator trophodynamics in response to reef condition
... In coral reef ecosystems, the differential susceptibility of coral taxa to climate-driven bleaching is predicted to shift coral assemblages towards reefs with an increased relative ...
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From genes to ecosystems: patterns, processes and consequences of declining biodiversity in coral reef fish communities
... a coral reef fish ...in reef fish assemblages due to habitat loss and climate change will lead to an overall decline in the abundance of reef fishes, which in turn may disrupt their role in ...
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Reef-scale thermal stress monitoring of coral ecosystems: new 5-km global products from NOAA coral reef watch
... for coral reef ecosystem ...NESDIS Coral Bleaching HotSpots was the first near-real-time global satellite thermal stress monitoring product used to assess the likelihood of coral bleaching ...
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