Coral reef ecosystems
Quantifying climatological ranges and anomalies for Pacific coral reef ecosystems.
... Coral reef ecosystems are exposed to a range of environmental forcings that vary on daily to decadal time scales and across spatial scales spanning from reefs to ...of reef ecosystem structure ...
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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 ...live coral cover has been well documented across large spatial and temporal scales, the associated effects on fish have ...conserving coral ...
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Microbial indicators of environmental perturbations in coral reef ecosystems
... ambient reef water or climate conditions; however, the high heterogen- eity of seawater due to local hot-spots of available resources [31, 32] may diminish the specificity of these ...the coral host ...of ...
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Prioritizing key resilience indicators to support coral reef management in a changing climate.
... among coral reef ecosystems ...reorganizing coral reef ecology on a large scale in the Western Indian Ocean ...assessing coral reef resilience in this way to define ...
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Additive diversity partitioning of fish in a Caribbean coral reef undergoing shift transition.
... the reef terrace in 2000 when the shift transition was underway was similar to reports from other studies in marine ecosystems ...the reef level was 39 species ...in ecosystems is in some way ...
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Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from reef ecosystems and associations with macroalgae on the Coast of Alagoas, Northeastern Brazil
... From 2009 to 2011, specimens were collected on the reefs in the intertidal and subtidal zones in depths up to five meters. The samples were collected manually along the shore and by snorkelling in the tide pool and along ...
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Seagrass ecosystem services: assessment and scale of benefits
... planet (case study 2). Carbon is sequestered and stored as seagrass biomass (autochthonous Corg), and through the trapping of organic particles derived from adjacent ecosystems (allochthonous Corg). The anoxic ...
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Einstein (São Paulo) vol.12 número2
... The appearance of dissected aortic specimens has been described as resemble a coral reef, with extensive calcifications that form an intraluminal mass. Optimally, histological examination should be ...
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Prioritizing land and sea conservation investments to protect coral reefs.
... The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a novel approach for delivering cost-effective outcomes for marine conservation that can explicitly trade-off resource allocation decisions among land- and sea-based ...
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Variation in habitat soundscape characteristics influences settlement of a reef-building coral
... with reef substrate, and in determining the specific locations in which coral planulae ...of coral by inducing or inhibiting settlement (Kuffner et ...
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Estuarine ecohydrology
... ecosystems. In many islands, the people have direct own- ership of coral reefs and the fisheries they support. For Micronesia, the model highlighted the beneficial role of mangroves, and this has resulted ...
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RNA-Seq of the Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata (Scleractinia-Merulinidae) under bleaching and disease stress expands models of coral innate immunity
... change-driven coral disease outbreaks have led to widespread declines in coral ...on coral genomics established that corals have a complex innate immune system, and whole-transcriptome gene ...
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Testing animal-assisted cleaning prior to transplantation in coral reef restoration
... The reef transplantation site, located on the south-west side of the island, consisted of a degraded coral reef affected by the mass coral bleaching event of the 1998, due to the coupling of ...
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Microbiome variation in corals with distinct depth distribution ranges across a shallow-mesophotic gradient (15-85 m)
... identified within each individual coral species. Agaricia grahamae and S. intersepta hosted in total two and six prokaryotic taxa, respectively, that were identified as depth indicators (Fig. 2). In contrast to ...
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Syndromes or flexibility: behavior during a life history transition of a coral reef fish.
... the coral patch); aggression recorded as mirror strike rate (after the initial 3 min observation a mirror was carefully placed in front of the fish and the combined number of strikes, tail whips, or aggressive ...
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Evaluating social and ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climate change.
... tropical reef fisheries, exposure can vary depending on factors such as oceanographic conditions, prevailing winds, and latitude, which can increase the likelihood of being impacted by events such as cyclones or ...
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Hydrology, Plankton, and Corals of the Maracajaú Reefs (Northeastern Brazil) - an Ecosystem Under Severe Thermal Stress
... the reef top; Station 2 – located at the channel (covered by the seagrass Halodule wrightii); and Station 3 – near the shore, receiving maximum continental ...
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Sensitivity of calcification to thermal stress varies among genera of massive reef-building corals.
... a reef [45], and this forms the structural basis of the large biological diversity associated with them ...major reef-building corals could potentially disrupt community structure in both Indo-Pacific and ...
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Major cellular and physiological impacts of ocean acidification on a reef building coral.
... Island reef flat, where they remained for 4 weeks, exposed to natural light and flow regimes in order to recover from ...and coral branches were sampled, snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at 280uC ...
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