Archipelago-wide coral recovery patterns since 1998 in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

By C. Sheppard, A. Harris, Anne L. S. Sheppard. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. M. Pratchett
2. Nicholas A. J. Graham
3. S. Wilson
4. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
5. W. Fitt
6. Nicholas Polunin
7. Todd C. LaJeunesse
8. Mark Spalding

In Molecular Biology

1. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
2. Eugenia M. Sampayo
3. Todd C. LaJeunesse

In Oceanography

1. W. Fitt
2. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
3. Todd C. LaJeunesse
4. Nicholas A. J. Graham
5. S. Wilson
6. M. Pratchett
7. B. Brown
8. Eugenia M. Sampayo

Citations in the corpus

• Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium (2010, background): “Although some areas have since shown significant recovery (Sheppard et al., 2008), it is uncertain how these communities may respond to future thermal stress events.”
• The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems to Climatic Disturbances (2017, background): “Similarly, coral reefs impacted by the 1997‐1998 ENSO warming event in the Chagos Archipelago recovered within 8 years (though in juvenile form lacking complex structure), due to recruitment (Sheppard et al. 2008).”
• Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management (2015, background): “…recent disturbances (but see Manfrino et al. 2013), reefs in the Indo-Pacific often recover rapidly from acute pulse disturbances (Connell 1997, Sheppard et al. 2008, Adjeroud et al. 2009, Gilmour et al. 2013), indicating a high level of resilience that is often linked to robust herbivore…”
• Coral mortality versus structural collapse as drivers of corallivorous butterflyfish decline (2009, background): “…the Chagos archipelago experienced limited bleaching and coral loss in 1998 at the depth of the surveys (Sheppard et al. 2002), and there were negligible changes in coral cover and structural complexity between the sampling occasions of this study (Sheppard et al. 2008; Graham et al. 2008).”