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Octocoral dynamics over a decade on Florida’s coral reef [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn recent decades, studies have documented increased octocoral cover and density on western Atlantic reefs, suggesting their potential to thrive in areas once dominated by scleractinians.
Ronen Liberman +6 more
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The 27–year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012 This study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of coral cover, identifies the main drivers of coral mortality, and quantifies the rates of potential recovery of the Great Barrier Reef.The world’s coral reefs are being degraded, and the need to
Katharina E Fabricius +1 more
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Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean [PDF]
Nature, 2004 Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global loss exceeding 35% (ref. 1). Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves, but the importance of these nurseries to reef fish population dynamics has not been ...
Peter J Mumby +2 more
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Diversity of cultivable protease-producing bacteria and their extracellular proteases associated to scleractinian corals [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Protease-producing bacteria play a vital role in degrading organic nitrogen in marine environments. However, the diversity of the bacteria and extracellular proteases has seldom been addressed, especially in communities of coral reefs. In this study, 136
Hongfei Su +10 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Rapid and widespread declines in coral health and abundance have driven increased investments in coral reef restoration interventions to jumpstart population recovery. Microfragmentation, an asexual propagation technique, is used to produce large numbers
Hanna R. Koch +4 more
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Assisted sexual reproduction of Acropora cervicornis for active restoration on Florida’s Coral Reef
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Given the rapid, global decline in the health and abundance of coral reefs, increased investments in restoration-based interventions -including asexual and sexual propagation- are being made by coral reef scientists at research institutions, but also at ...
Hanna R. Koch +4 more
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Insights from twenty years of comparative research in Pacific Large Ocean States
Ecosystems and People, 2022 Under global environmental change, understanding the interactions between people and nature has become critical for human survival. Comparative research can identify trends within social-ecological systems providing key insights for both environmental ...
Amy L. Shurety +7 more
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Dangerous demographics in post-bleach corals reveal boom-bust versus protracted declines
Scientific Reports, 2021 Thermal-stress events have changed the structure, biodiversity, and functioning of coral reefs. But how these disturbances affect the dynamics of individual coral colonies remains unclear.
Juliano Morais +4 more
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Current Biology, 2008 Coral reefs are the most diverse of marine ecosystems, with hundreds of thousands if not millions of species associated with reefs. For this reason they are often called the rain forests of the sea, and as such they have been of interest not only to marine scientists but also to ecologists and evolutionary biologists broadly.
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Coral-algal interactions at Weizhou Island in the northern South China Sea: variations by taxa and the exacerbating impact of sediments trapped in turf algae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Competitive interactions between corals and benthic algae are increasingly frequent on degrading coral reefs, but the processes and mechanisms surrounding the interactions, as well as the exacerbating effects of sediments trapped in turf algae, are ...
Zhiheng Liao +4 more
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