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Threshold Effects in Coral Reef Fisheries [PDF]
Coral reefs may naturally flip between coral-dominated and algae-dominated states, when species' stocks trespass some threshold levels. This essay uses a stylized model of a coral reef to show how fishing may induce flips towards more algae-dominated ...
Anne Sophie Crépin
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Too hot to handle? The impact of the 2023 marine heatwave on Florida Keys coral
Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe summer 2023 marine heatwave was the most severe on record for Florida’s Coral Reef, with unprecedented water temperatures and cumulative heat stress leading to 100% coral bleaching.
Karen L. Neely +5 more
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Modelling Growth of Juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish on the Northern Great Barrier Reef
Diversity, 2016 The corallivorous crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) is a major cause of coral mortality on Indo-Pacific reefs. Despite considerable research into the biology of crown-of-thorns starfish, our understanding of the early post-settlement life stage
Jennifer Wilmes +5 more
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Supplementary report to the final report of the coral reef expert group: S7. Coral reef models as assessment and reporting tools for the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program – a review [PDF]
, 2020 [Extract] The objective of this report is to review the existing models of temporal/spatial dynamics of coral communities available for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef), with the specific aim at evaluating their strengths and weaknesses for the ...
Mumby, P.J., Bozec, Y.M.
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Hot spots in hot waters: spatial patterns of bleaching-related mortality within individual reefs
Frontiers in Marine ScienceCoral mortality resulting from hyperthermal bleaching events has and continues to be a major source of reef decline. Susceptibility to bleaching and associated coral death depends on abiotic as well as biotic variables and as such is known to vary widely
Karen L. Neely +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2017 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch program developed and operates several global satellite products to monitor bleaching-level heat stress.
William Skirving +11 more
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The sixth GCRMN Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020 : animation
, 2021 The flagship product of the GCRMN is the Status of Coral Reefs of the World report that describes the status and trends of coral reefs worldwide. This sixth edition of the GCRMN Status of Coral Reefs of the World report is the first since 2008, and the ...
Global Coral Reef Monitoring network (GCRMN) +1 more
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Ecology and SocietyRapid urbanization is a critical landscape transition that impacts biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services, and social sustainability. Urbanizing locations may follow different ecological trajectories, with very different consequences for future ...
Sivee Chawla +2 more
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Ecology and EvolutionAddressing anthropogenic threats compromising the persistence of tropical marine ecosystems requires a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ecological functions organisms fulfill in these realms.
Erika Gress +3 more
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