Reef Ecosystems
Heavy metals distribution in the coral reef ecosystems of the Northern Red Sea
... coral reef eco- systems in the Northern Red Sea and provide appropriate information to coral reef managers and ...coral reef ecosystems from the sources these persistent ...
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Quantifying climatological ranges and anomalies for Pacific coral reef ecosystems
... these metrics to the intra-island scale is the focus of our subsequent research. Second, despite our attempts to produce metrics that are representative of environmental conditions on coral reefs, satellite- derived ...
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A critique of a method to determine long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems
... the reef ecosystems towards ecological extinction through ...Barrier Reef (GBR) are found to be 28% and 36%, respectively, down the path towards ecological extinction (Figures 1 and ...continental ...
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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 ...coral reef fish assemblages are the most species dense vertebrate communities on earth, contributing critical ecosystem functions and providing ...
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Habitats as surrogates of taxonomic and functional fish assemblages in coral reef ecosystems: a critical analysis of factors driving effectiveness
... coral reef ecosystems, conclusions remain largely ...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 ...coral reef fish assemblages are the most species dense vertebrate communities on earth, contributing critical ecosystem functions and providing ...
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Microbial indicators of environmental perturbations in coral reef ecosystems
... on reef sponges has shown that while microbial community composition can appear stable when seawater temperatures increase, disruption to nutritional interdependence and molecular interac- tions (such as reduced ...
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Testing and evaluating non extractive sampling platforms to assess deep water rocky reef ecosystems on the continental shelf
... Traditional extractive sampling methods, such as netting and trawling, to assess benthic species diversity, size and abundance are unable to sample complex hard substrates, e.g., rocky reefs. This inability led to the ...
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Some Notes on the Regeneration of Coral Reef Ecosystems
... During the visit to the islands in 2013, it was recorded that the reefs that had been damaged seven years before had begun to recover. In the northwestern end of the isl- and, almost intact coral populations were found, ...
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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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Trophodynamics as a tool for understanding coral reef ecosystems
... Diet analysis is one of the most common methods in trophodynamic study along with direct observation of predator prey-relationships (Choat et al., 2004; Fox et al., 2009; Kramer et al., 2013; Young et al., 2015; Wen et ...
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The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems
... Both EBM and RBM consider resilience and connections across the socio-ecological system, but a key difference is that RBM acknowledges that humans are capable of driving change, adaptation and transfor- mation (Fig. 1; ...
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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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From genes to ecosystems: patterns, processes and consequences of declining biodiversity in coral reef fish communities
... 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 coral ...
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Summer growth rates of corals at Lord Howe Island, Australia
... coral reef ecosystems, affecting reef productivity, heterogeneity, and ...of reef-building corals, if not ...coral reef environment, during the 2010-11 summer growing ...Horseshoe ...
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The ecosystem role of parrotfishes on coral reefs
... coral-dominated reef ecosystems ...for reef organisms, but also in a better condition for the settlement and development of coral ...the reef crest compared to the inner flat (Fox and Bellwood ...
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Reef-scale thermal stress monitoring of coral ecosystems: new 5-km global products from NOAA coral reef watch
... coral reef ecosystem ...Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program, established in 2000 ...coral reef ecosystems [19]. Widely used by the global coral reef community, CRW’s original satellite ...
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Socio-ecological drivers of fish biomass on coral reefs: the importance of accessibility, protection and key species
... coral reef ecosystems through predictive modelling from local to global ...Coral reef conditions (biomass or biodiversity) and functioning ...of reef fish biomass than local human density and ...
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Eco morphological Zonation of Coral reefs at Gulf of Mannar A Geospatial Perspective
... the spatial resolution of satellite imagery is too rough to map the reef details due to the spectral mixing of one pixel. But by comparing with traditional in-situ survey method remote sensing method has some ...
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Using MODIS data for mapping of water types within river plumes in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: towards the production of river plume risk maps for reef and seagrass ecosystems
... Further work is also required to improve our understanding of the river plume risk, particularly around the duration of river plume occurrence or maximum concentration/level/load of stressor discharged in extreme weather ...
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