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Bioerosion in a changing world: a conceptual framework [PDF]

Ecology Letters, 2018
AbstractBioerosion, the breakdown of hard substrata by organisms, is a fundamental and widespread ecological process that can alter habitat structure, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling. Bioerosion occurs in all biomes of the world from the ocean floor to arid deserts, and involves a wide diversity of taxa and mechanisms with varying ecological ...
Timothy M, Davidson, Andrew H, Altieri, Gregory M, Ruiz, Mark E, Torchin   +3 more
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Constraining species-size class variability in rates of parrotfish bioerosion on Maldivian coral reefs: implications for regional-scale bioerosion estimates (article)

, 2018
Parrotfish are important bioeroders on coral reefs, and thus influence reef carbonate budgets and generate large volumes of carbonate sand that contribute to local beach and reef island maintenance.
RT Yarlett (21878042), CT Perry (15858386), KE Philpot (21878045), RW Wilson (7750076)   +3 more
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Syn-vivo bioerosion of Nautilus by endo- and epilithic foraminiferans (New Caledonia and Vanuatu).

PLoS ONE, 2015
A variety of syn-vivo bioerosion traces produced by foraminiferans is recorded in shells of Nautilus sampled near New Caledonia and Vanuatu. These are two types of attachment scars of epilithic foraminiferans and two forms of previously undescribed ...
Barbara Seuss, Max Wisshak, Royal H Mapes, Neil H Landman   +3 more
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Ichnodiversity and bathymetric range of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles of Svalbard

Polar Research, 2020
This first comprehensive investigation of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles addresses two bathymetrical transects from the intertidal down to subtidal water depths in two different carbonate factories in the Svalbard Archipelago: the bay ...
Neele Meyer, Max Wisshak, André Freiwald   +2 more
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Domichnial Borings in Serpulid Tube Walls: Prosperous Benthic Assemblages in the Cretaceous of France and the Czech Republic

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The calcareous tubes inhabited by some polychaetes (some Serpulidae and the sabellid Glomerula) which are adapted to live sticking in soft ground, starting from the Permian, represent widespread but widely neglected and understudied substrates for ...
Radek Mikuláš, Martina Kočová Veselská, Martina Kočová Veselská, Tomáš Kočí, Tomáš Kočí, Jaroslav Šamánek, Manfred Jäger, Zuzana Heřmanová, Jana Bruthansová   +8 more
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BIOERODED AND OR ENCRUSTED AMMONITE MOULDS AND THEIR TAPHONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2000
Encrustation and/or bioerosion have been observed on both sides of several ammonites sampled from Lower-Middle Toarcian Rosso Ammonitico of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Central Italy).
FRANCESCO MACCHIONI
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Succession and Colonization Dynamics of Endolithic Phototrophs within Intertidal Carbonates

Microorganisms, 2020
Photosynthetic endolithic communities are common in shallow marine carbonates, contributing significantly to their bioerosion. Cyanobacteria are well known from these settings, where a few are euendoliths, actively boring into the virgin substrate ...
Daniel Roush, Ferran Garcia-Pichel
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Black Mantle Tissue of Endolithic Mussels (Leiosolenus spp.) Is Cloaking Borehole Orifices in Caribbean Reef Corals

Diversity, 2022
Bioerosion caused by boring mussels (Mytilidae: Lithophaginae) can negatively impact coral reef health. During biodiversity surveys of coral-associated fauna in Curaçao (southern Caribbean), morphological variation in mussel boreholes was studied ...
Bert W. Hoeksema, Annabel Smith-Moorhouse, Charlotte E. Harper, Roel. J. van der Schoot, Rosalie F. Timmerman, Roselle Spaargaren, Sean J. Langdon-Down   +6 more
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Not all rhodoliths need a bed–depositional mechanisms in shallow water Sporolithon nodosum rhodoliths from the Whangaparaoa peninsula (North Island, New Zealand)

Sedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rhodoliths, formed by crustose coralline algae (CCA), are prominent components in carbonate platform deposits, contributing to the characteristic rhodalgal facies. Their formation is influenced by both biological and physical factors, and under specific conditions, they can accumulate, forming extensive rhodolith beds.
Sebastian Teichert, Thomas Mölg, Ines Pyko, Elena Kropač, Peter Marriott, Roberta D'Archino, Nicolas Cullen, Daniela Basso, Nora Persch, Sven Bach, Ella Lis, Beau Masters, Wendy Nelson   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ecology of the grazing urchin Echinometra mathaei at Ningaloo Marine Park [PDF]

, 2012
Sea urchins can have a significant influence upon the ecological structure of coral reefs through both bioerosion of substrata and by affecting competition for space.
Langdon, Mark
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