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Open AccessDespite plasticity, heatwaves are costly for a coral reef fish
Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, including marine heatwaves, which are prolonged periods of anomalously high sea surface temperature that pose a novel threat to aquatic animals. Tropical ...
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Open AccessCorals survive severe bleaching event in refuges related to taxa, colony size, and water depth
Marine heatwaves are increasing in frequency and duration, threatening tropical reef ecosystems through intensified coral bleaching events. We examined a strikingly variable spatial pattern of bleaching in Moo...
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Biological trade-offs underpin coral reef ecosystem functioning
Human impact increasingly alters global ecosystems, often reducing biodiversity and disrupting the provision of essential ecosystem services to humanity. Therefore, preserving ecosystem functioning is a critic...
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Nitrate enrichment has lineage specific effects on Pocillopora acuta adults, but no transgenerational effects in planulae
Local-scale nutrient pollution can alter coral growth and reproductive output, as well as their resident communities of microorganisms (dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae, bacteria). Yet, the ways i...
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Open AccessThe role of predators in coral disease dynamics
Coral disease is becoming increasingly problematic on reefs worldwide. However, most coral disease research has focused on the abiotic drivers of disease, potentially overlooking the role of species interactio...
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A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs
A fundamental goal in ecology is to understand the role of consumers in top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) processes that affect the functioning of ecosystems. Consumers ingest organic matter and excrete inorgan...
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Correction to: Chronic low-level nutrient enrichment benefits coral thermal performance in a fore reef habitat
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Chronic low-level nutrient enrichment benefits coral thermal performance in a fore reef habitat
Global- and local-scale anthropogenic stressors have been the main drivers of coral reef decline, causing shifts in coral reef community composition and ecosystem functioning. Excess nutrient enrichment can ma...
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Open AccessPhylogenetic conservatism drives nutrient dynamics of coral reef fishes
The relative importance of evolutionary history and ecology for traits that drive ecosystem processes is poorly understood. Consumers are essential drivers of nutrient cycling on coral reefs, and thus ecosyste...
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Nitrogen Identity Drives Differential Impacts of Nutrients on Coral Bleaching and Mortality
Nitrogen pollution increases the susceptibility of corals to heat-induced bleaching. However, different forms of nitrogen (nitrate vs. ammonium/urea) may have different impacts on thermal tolerance of corals. ...
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Macroborer presence on corals increases with nutrient input and promotes parrotfish bioerosion
Bioerosion by reef-dwelling organisms influences net carbonate budgets on reefs worldwide. External bioeroders, such as parrotfish and sea urchins, and internal bioeroders, including sponges and lithophagid bi...
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Open AccessParrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals
Coral-associated microbial communities are sensitive to multiple environmental and biotic stressors that can lead to dysbiosis and mortality. Although the processes contributing to these microbial shifts remai...
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Newly dominant benthic invertebrates reshape competitive networks on contemporary Caribbean reefs
Competition is a fundamental process structuring ecological communities. On coral reefs, space is a highly contested resource and the outcomes of spatial competition can dictate community composition. In the C...
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Species-specific patterns in corallivory and spongivory among Caribbean parrotfishes
Parrotfishes are key herbivores on Caribbean reefs but also feed on other benthic taxa such as corals and sponges. Here, we used in situ behavioral observations to show that Caribbean parrotfishes have species...
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Open AccessMultiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome
Perturbations in natural systems generally are the combination of multiple interactions among individual stressors. However, methods to interpret the effects of interacting stressors remain challenging and are...
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Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity
Herbivores alter plant biodiversity (species richness) in many of the world’s ecosystems, but the magnitude and the direction of herbivore effects on biodiversity vary widely within and among ecosystems. One c...
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Publisher Correction: Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching
In the version of this Brief Communication originally published, the two instances of ‘natural-to-high’ in the sixth and seventh paragraphs were incorrect; they should have read ‘naturally high’.
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Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching
Recent large-scale analyses suggest that local management actions may not protect coral reefs from climate change, yet most local threat-reduction strategies have not been tested experimentally. We show that r...
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Groups of roving midnight parrotfish (Scarus coelestinus) prey on sergeant major damselfish (Abudefduf saxatilis) nests
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Predator identity and time of day interact to shape the risk–reward trade-off for herbivorous coral reef fishes
Non-consumptive effects (NCEs) of predators occur as prey alters their habitat use and foraging decisions to avoid predation. Although NCEs are recognized as being important across disparate ecosystems, the fa...
