Destruction and Recovery of Coral Reef Communities

Endean, R.

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“…Corals were actively shedding sediment at the La Parguera patch reef during this study, but high winds and seas, common on summer days along the southern coast of Puerto Rico (Almy & Carrion-Tortes, 1963), are reduced in the winter. The amount and duration of stress experienced by an individual coral colony during these infrequent episodes of sedimentation and turbidity, as well as during intense tropical storms (Endean, 1976;Connell, 1978), will be affected by surrounding irregularities in reef topography and sediment deposits. These habitat variations change with time, and with the growth, death, and erosion of neighboring colonies (Dana, 1976).…”

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“…Sammarco & Williams (1982) found that damselfish increased the numbers of rarer corals such as Favia because this species is more resistant to algae. From his studies of Pacific damselfish, Potts (1977) concluded that the algal mat caused corals to expend energy to keep surfaces clean, and death followed the exhaustion of metabolic reserves during periods of minimum nutrient availability, Fish and other organisms which prey on corals (Robertson, 1970;Ott & Lewis, 1972;Antonius, 1973;Glynn, 1973;Endean, 1976;Brawley & Adey, 1982) may be responsible for the spread of some of the diseases and microparasites. In particular, microorganisms caught in the mucus layer of the fishes' mouths could be spread as they feed on coral tissue (D. Spoon, pers.…”

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A survey of cellular reactions to environmental stress and disease in Caribbean scleractinian corals

Peters

1984

Helgolander Meeresunters

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A survey of cellular reactions to environmental stress and disease in Caribbean scleractinian corals

Peters

1984

Helgolander Meeresunters

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“…Conspicuously absent from the patch and outer reefs were the large massive colonies. Many studies have shown the effects of disturbances on size-frequency distributions, whereby large massive colonies, if impacted, will take decades to recover to similar sizefrequency distributions (Endean 1973;Done 1987;Endean et al 1989). The recovery on some of Palau's reefs was similar to, albeit less rapid than, recovery on a lava flow reported by Tomascik et al (1996).…”

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Palau’s coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998-bleaching event

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Documenting successional dynamics of coral communities following large-scale bleaching events is necessary to predict coral population responses to global climate change. In 1998, high sea surface temperatures and low cloud cover in the western Pacific Ocean caused high coral mortality on the outer exposed reefs of Palau (Micronesia), while coral mortality in sheltered bays was low. Recovery was examined from 2001 to 2005 at 13 sites stratified by habitat (outer reefs, patch reefs and bays) and depth (3 and 10 m). Two hypotheses were tested: (1) rates of change of coral cover vary in accordance with habitat, and (2) recovery rates depend on recruitment. Coral cover increased most in the sheltered bays, despite a low recruitment rate, suggesting that recovery in bays was primarily a consequence of remnant regrowth. Recruitment densities were consistently high on the wave-exposed reefs, particularly the western slopes, where recovery was attributed to both recruitment and regrowth of remnants. Recovery was initially more rapid at 10 m than 3 m on outer reefs, but in 2004, recovery rates were similar at both depths. Rapid recovery was possible because Palau's coral reefs were buffered by remnant survival and recruitment from the less impacted habitats.

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“…The literature abounds with many cases of damage from careless development (see, for example, Bryant et al, 1998;Endean, 1976;Johannes, 1975;Salvat, 1974Salvat, , 1978Salvat, , 1987aUNEP/IUCN, 1988;Wells and Hanna, 1992;Wilkinson, 1998). Specific examples are discussed in the following paragraphs.…”

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