Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata

Klaus, James S.; McNeill, Donald F.; Budd, Ann F.; Coates, Anthony G.

doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0835-2

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“…Likewise, the Stadion coral assemblages were not building large-scale high-relief reef structures, supporting the idea that high coral species diversity can be independent of reef development . Thus, high siliciclastic input is a major control on the functioning of reef-coral communities even though a high diversity of coral species would be able to thrive under turbid conditions (Klaus et al 2011).…”

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A Diverse Patch Reef From Turbid Habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Santodomingo

Novak

Pretković

et al. 2015

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The Kutai Basin (East Kalimantan, Indonesia) contains a rich and well-preserved Miocene fossil record of small patch reefs that developed under the influence of high siliciclastic input associated with the progradation of the Mahakam Delta. In this study, we reconstruct the biodiversity and paleoenvironments on one of these delta-front, mixed carbonatesiliciclastic systems that developed at the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary near the city of Samarinda. In two newly exposed sections, we analyzed the sedimentology and distribution of the main fossil biota including corals, foraminifers, coralline algae, and bryozoans. Seven facies are herein defined, including two dominated by platy corals and two by larger benthic foraminifera. Facies distributions were driven by changes in depth and variations in terrigenous input within a range of delta-front habitats. Despite the turbid conditions, fossil assemblages are highly diverse, including 69 coral species and 28 bryozoan species that occur in coral-dominated facies. Crustose coralline algae were mainly associated with the coral-dominated facies. Larger benthic foraminifera showed broader ecological tolerance within the range represented in the studied sections and thus are common in most facies. These diverse patch reef ecosystems were able to cope with high siliciclastic input during the early development of the Miocene coral reef biota.

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confidence: 99%

A Diverse Patch Reef From Turbid Habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Santodomingo

Novak

Pretković

et al. 2015

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“…Isla Colón is part of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Panama, SWC, that has a long geological history of coral reef growth (Coates et al 2005, O'Dea et al 2007, Klaus et al 2012. Early archeological records in Panama date to about 9000 BC or before and are concentrated on the Pacific coast, although humans probably had reached Bocas del Toro as hunter gatherers around 5000 yrs ago (Ranere andCooke 1991, Cooke 2005), and had settled and were actively fishing by around 500 AD (Wake et al 2004(Wake et al , 2013 and almost certainly earlier.…”

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“…Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845) masked this effect by filling the functional role of grazers on coral reefs, until a mass mortality of Diadema in 1983-1984 led to a collapse in the reef's ecological structure (Lessios 1988, Hughes 1994. Simultaneously, A. cervicornis and A. palmata-which first appeared in the Bocas del Toro fossil record approximately 5 Ma and have dominated Caribbean coral reefs for at least the past 2.2 My (Klaus et al 2012)-also began to decline before the mid-1960s in lagoonal reefs in Bocas del Toro (Cramer et al 2012). These species abruptly became rare throughout most of the Caribbean in the 1980s due to white-band disease (Aronson and Precht 1997, Greenstein et al 1998, Aronson and Precht 2001.…”

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Marked Ecological Shifts in Seagrass and Reef Molluscan Communities Since the Mid-Holocene in the Southwestern Caribbean

Fredston¹,

O’Dea²,

Rodriguez³

et al. 2013

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Caribbean coastal ecosystems have undergone severe degradation both historically and recently, primarily caused by the synergistic effects of overfishing, eutrophication, sedimentation, disease, and other factors associated with humans. Baseline conditions from pristine Caribbean reefs and seagrass beds are required to understand and quantify degradation. Only the fossil record can provide pre-human baselines. We present preliminary results from a recently discovered mid-Holocene (7.2-5.7 ka) fossil fringing reef and seagrass system in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Molluscan assemblages from the fossil reef and seagrass habitats were compared to death assemblages in corresponding modern habitats. The proportion of suspension-feeding molluscs more than doubled from fossil to the present day in the reef habitat, and the proportion of herbivores declined by a third, reflecting declines in coral cover and architecture, and increased eutrophy. Conversely, in seagrass beds, the proportion of different mollusc guilds was remarkably similar between fossil and modern day, suggesting that unlike reefs, seagrass beds are functionally similar today compared to a "pristine" baseline, although key community members were different. Our study reveals novel evidence that the health of molluscan communities on Caribbean reefs may have declined to the extent observed in corals and fish, and that the decline follows a trajectory predicted by known ecosystem degradation. Molluscs represent a biodiverse and functionally crucial component of reefs and must be considered in ecosystem-scale research on reef conservation. Revealing the structure of baseline communities using the fossil record represents one important step toward this aim.

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“…, corals, Klaus et al. ), and potentially across life stages (Crean and Marshall ). One aspect of these effects is described as autocorrelated growth, which is common in plants and animals where it refers to positive correlations between future and previous growth (Zuidema et al.…”

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Intraspecific variation in growth rate is a poor predictor of fitness for reef corals

Edmunds

2017

Ecology

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Genetic variation underlying differences in organism performance is subject to natural selection, and organisms with high values of genetically determined phenotypic measures of fitness should perform better than those that do not. Using small scleractinian corals (i.e., ≤40-mm diameter), this principle was tested with 20 yr of census data from St. John, US Virgin Islands. Using growth rate (change in diameter) as a measure of fitness, growth in one year was tested for association with growth and survivorship in the following two years, and this process was repeated over 20 yr using a 3-yr sliding window. Virtually all variation in growth was independent of colony size, and growth among pairs of years was highly variable, with corals that grew fast in one year rarely growing fast in the next 2 yr. While growth in some pairs of years was positively correlated, ≤4% of the growth variance was explained by growth in the preceding 2 yr. Survivorship was related positively to growth in the preceding year, but the association was weak, it did not extend over 3 yr, and was inconsistent over the study. These results demonstrate the importance of the environment in translating phenotypic measures of fitness into future performance, and for small Caribbean corals, they suggest that environmental conditions may preempt genotype in determining short-term success.

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Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata

Cited by 28 publications

References 56 publications

A Diverse Patch Reef From Turbid Habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

A Diverse Patch Reef From Turbid Habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Marked Ecological Shifts in Seagrass and Reef Molluscan Communities Since the Mid-Holocene in the Southwestern Caribbean

Intraspecific variation in growth rate is a poor predictor of fitness for reef corals

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