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Spatiotemporal and species-specific patterns of diseases affecting crustose coralline algae in Curaçao
Distribution and abundance of coral diseases have been well documented, but only a few studies considered diseases affecting crustose coralline algae (CCA), particularly at the species level. We investigated t...
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Larval settlement preferences of Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata in response to diverse red algae
Settlement specificity can regulate recruitment but remains poorly understood for coral larvae. We studied larvae of the corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata, to determine their rates of settlement ...
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Empirical relationships among resilience indicators on Micronesian reefs
A process-orientated understanding of ecosystems usually starts with an exploratory analysis of empirical relationships among potential drivers and state variables. While relationships among herbivory, algal c...
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Marine proxy evidence linking decadal North Pacific and Atlantic climate
Decadal- to multidecadal variability in the extra-tropical North Pacific is evident in 20th century instrumental records and has significant impacts on Northern Hemisphere climate and marine ecosystems. Severa...
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Estimating rates of biologically driven coral reef framework production and erosion: a new census-based carbonate budget methodology and applications to the reefs of Bonaire
Census-based approaches can provide important measures of the ecological processes controlling reef carbonate production states. Here, we describe a rapid, non-destructive approach to carbonate budget assessme...
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Larval settlement preferences and post-settlement survival of the threatened Caribbean corals Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis
The settlement specificity of two threatened Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis, was tested by measuring their rates of larval metamorphosis in response to crustose coralline algae (CCA) and ot...
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Theme section on “Larval connectivity, resilience and the future of coral reefs”
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Larval retention and connectivity among populations of corals and reef fishes: history, advances and challenges
The extent of larval dispersal on coral reefs has important implications for the persistence of coral reef metapopulations, their resilience and recovery from an increasing array of threats, and the success of...
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Thinking and managing outside the box: coalescing connectivity networks to build region-wide resilience in coral reef ecosystems
As the science of connectivity evolves, so too must the management of coral reefs. It is now clear that the spatial scale of disturbances to coral reef ecosystems is larger and the scale of larval connectivity...
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The Caribbean's western-most algal ridges in Cozumel, Mexico
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Ecological controls on stromatolite development in a modern reef environment: A test of the ecological refuge paradigm
Paleontological and neontological studies suggest that stromatolite development may be limited to environments where ecological processes such as colonization (recruitment), growth, competition, and predation ...
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A unique algal ridge system in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas
An algal ridge system discovered along the Exuma Cays, Bahamas constructs bioherms to a thickness of at least 1.5 m and is associated with modern intertidal stromatolites. These algal ridges are unique becaus...
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An early Holocene reef in the western Atlantic: submersible investigations of a deep relict reef off the west coast of Barbados, W.I.
Submersible observations and collections reveal that a probable relict reef off the west coast of Barbados has a rich cover of sponges, along with algae and scattered corals, on a substrate of algal nodules in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Herbivory and the Evolution of Nongeniculate Coralline Algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales) in the North Atlantic and North Pacific
A comparison of the crustose coralline (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) floras of the Boreal eastern North Pacific (Prince William Sound, Alaska to Pt. Conception, California) and Subarctic western North Atlantic (C...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptations of Crustose Coralline Algae to Herbivory: Patterns in Space and Time
Crustose coralline algae are among the most abundant organisms (plant or animal) to occupy hard substratum within the photic zone. In fact, the Holocene may be the “Age of Crustose Corallines,” since coralline...
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Feeding capabilities and limitation of herbivorous molluscs: A functional group approach
The susceptibility of an alga to an herbivorous mollusc depends, in part, upon the size and toughness of the plant relative to the feeding ability of the mollusc. In this study, algae are subdivided into seven...
