Holocene coral reef rubble and its binding agents

Rasser, Michael W.; Riegl, Bernhard

doi:10.1007/s00338-001-0206-5

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“…With this respect, the massive Lithocodium-coral constructions can be compared to a certain extent with modern coral reef rubble deposits (Bover-Arnal 2010; Bover-Arnal et al 2011). By this analogy, Lithocodium prerecorded the role of what red algae and diagenetic cementation do in modern reefal environments being highest in fore-reefal settings (e.g., Rasser and Riegl 2002).…”

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The morphological adaptation of Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott (calcareous green alga) to cryptic microhabitats (Lower Aptian, Spain): an example of phenotypic plasticity

Schlagintweit¹,

Bover‐Arnal

2011

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Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott is interpreted as a heterotrichale chlorophycean alga with a prostrate and erect system within a well-calcified tissue. Within Lower Aptian coral rubble of the western Maestrat Basin, Spain, it forms thick masses of juxtaposed crusts around the bioclasts. In achieving a rapid and complete encrustation of the available bioclasts, Lithocodium applied several strategies, e.g., filling voids of structured surfaces with a special fabric or forming erect extensions to bridge adjacent substrates. In these deposits, different types of poorly if ever illuminated cryptic microhabitats can be distinguished: (1) existing crypts such as empty shells or structural voids within bioclasts (2) crypts resulting from the complete encrustation of adjacent bioclasts by Lithocodium itself and (3) syndepositionally created crypts, e.g., boreholes produced by lithophagid bivalves. In these cases, Lithocodium developed a poorly calcified structure of large cells with thin microcrystalline walls indicating a high degree of variability (phenotypic plasticity). This cryptic growth stage is interpreted as an adaption to the poorly illuminated crypts (photoadaption) in order to maximize light capture for photosynthesis. The Lower Cretaceous Lithocodium is therefore not per se a cryptoendolithic microorganism, but may show adaptation to develop and survive also in these already existing or newly created niches.

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The morphological adaptation of Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott (calcareous green alga) to cryptic microhabitats (Lower Aptian, Spain): an example of phenotypic plasticity

Schlagintweit¹,

Bover‐Arnal

2011

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“…Coral rubble is created from the partial destruction and fragmentation of hermatypic corals and accumulated by currents and waves (Aronson & Precht 1997, Yamano et al 2000, Rasser & Riegl 2002. Coral rubble habitats suffer frequent physical disturbances from various factors: for example, episodic typhoons and ABSTRACT: Coral rubble is one of the characteristic bottom habitats in tropical and subtropical coral reefs.…”

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Colonization patterns of mobile cryptic animals into interstices of coral rubble

Takada

Abe²,

Shibuno³

2007

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…The collapse of live coral into varying degrees of less structurally complex rubble is a gradual process, with the amount of degradation related to biotic factors (e.g., abundance of corallivores and herbivores), exposure to chronic wave action, destructive storms, human impact, and time from initial death (Huston, 1985;Rasser and Riegl, 2002;Lesser, 2004). Unless balanced by coral growth and recruitment, areas with dead coral generally become less rugose over time, resulting in decreasing structural complexity of available microhabitats.…”

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Loss of Structural Complexity in Staghorn Coral Rubble Habitats Influences the Density of Damselfish in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA

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Eme

Rohrer

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Holocene coral reef rubble and its binding agents

Cited by 175 publications

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The morphological adaptation of Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott (calcareous green alga) to cryptic microhabitats (Lower Aptian, Spain): an example of phenotypic plasticity

The morphological adaptation of Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott (calcareous green alga) to cryptic microhabitats (Lower Aptian, Spain): an example of phenotypic plasticity

Colonization patterns of mobile cryptic animals into interstices of coral rubble

Loss of Structural Complexity in Staghorn Coral Rubble Habitats Influences the Density of Damselfish in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA

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