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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2011 The 1983-1984 mass mortality of Diadema antillarum produced severe damages on Caribbean reefs contributing to substantial changes in community structure that still persist.
Félix Martín Blanco +3 more
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Restoration Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 8, November 2024.The die‐off of the long‐spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the 1980s highlighted its crucial role as a primary grazer in tropical western Atlantic coral reefs. However, natural recovery has been slow, exacerbated by a new die‐off in 2022. Interest in actively restoring D.
Tom Wijers +4 more
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Ecosphere, Volume 15, Issue 9, September 2024.Abstract Consumers can play critical roles in ecosystem resilience by modifying community resistance and recovery rates. In coral reefs, grazers can increase reef resilience by controlling algae and maintaining open space for coral recruitment, but can also erode the reef framework critical for coral recovery.
Patrick H. Saldaña +2 more
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Fine‐grained sediment production by endolithic sponges on Caribbean coral reefs
Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 69, Issue 9, Page 2015-2028, September 2024.Abstract Endolithic sponges are key players in carbonate cycling on coral reef systems. While their bioerosion of reef framework is relatively well studied, their role in biogenic sediment generation is poorly understood. In this study, the sedimentary attributes and production rates of eight Caribbean endolithic sponge species were characterized.
Didier M. de Bakker +4 more
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, 2013 Rodríguez, Adriana, Hernández, José Carlos, Clemente, Sabrina (2013): A new species of Diadema (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Diadematidae) from the eastern Atlantic Ocean and a neotype designation of Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845).
Rodríguez, Adriana +2 more
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Effects of herbivory by the urchin Diadema antillarum on early restoration success of the coral Acropora cervicornis in the central Caribbean [PDF]
, 2020 Herbivory is a key process well-known to maintain a coral-dominated state, and in the Caribbean Sea, the long-spine urchin Diadema antillarum is thought to aid coral success by removing algae from seafloor substrate that might otherwise outcompete coral ...
Sellares-Blasco, Rita I. +4 more
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Mass mortality of the echinoid Diadema antillarum Philippi in Jamaica
, 1985 [Extract] During the summer of 1983 Jamaican populations of the ubiquitous spiny sea urchin, Diadema antillarum Philippi, suffered mass mortalities. The die-off spread around most of the ocastline of Jamaica wihtin about 8 weeks, causing local mortality ...
Hughes, T.P. +3 more
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Protracted recovery of long-spined urchin (Diadema antillarum) in the Bahamas [PDF]
, 2023 In 1983–1984, an unknown waterborne pathogen caused the mass mortality of long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) across the Caribbean and western tropical Atlantic. After approximately 15 years, urchin populations began to recover at some locations,
Stallings, C.D. +6 more
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Marine Drugs, 2010 Extracts of the Floridian marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya cf. confervoides were found to deter feeding by reef fish and sea urchins (Diadema antillarum).
Susan Matthew +5 more
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Assessment of Elkhorn Coral Populations and Associated Herbivores in Akumal, Mexico
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Coral decline in the Caribbean is marked by the loss of habitat-forming corals, such as elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata). Elkhorn coral recovery has been isolated and patchy, but recently a “re-sheeting” phenomenon, in which elkhorn tissue grows over ...
Laura Mudge +4 more
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