Long-Term Region-Wide Declines in Caribbean Corals

By T. Gardner, Isabelle M. Côté, J. Gill, A. Grant, A. Watkinson. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Rapid diversity and abundance decline in a Caribbean coral reef sponge community (2006, background): “Sponges engage in mutually beneficial interactions with corals (Goreau and Hartman, 1966; Wulff and Buss, 1979), zoanthids (e.g., West, 1976), other sponges (Wulff, 1997a), and many other organisms.”
Nutrient Fluxes and Ecological Functions of Coral Reef Sponges in a Changing Ocean (2017, background): “2010; Colvard and Edmunds 2011) following the continuing decline in coral cover (Gardner et al. 2003).”
Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next? (2008, background): “…of marine megavertebrates are of profound conservation concern as the result of a range of past and ongoing impacts such as direct exploitation (Roman & Palumbi 2003, Baum & Myers 2004), indirect take in fisheries (NRC 1990, Hall et al. 2000) and habitat degradation (e.g. Gardner et al. 2003).”
Heterotrophic and autotrophic assimilation of fatty acids by two scleractinian corals, Montastraea faveolata and Porites astreoides (2011, background): “Concurrent with declines in habitat condition, significant declines in the abundance, diversity, and spatial distribution of coral reefs and neighboring seagrasses have been recorded along with associated losses in the ecological and economic services that these ecosystem engineers contribute (Gardn”
Ratcheting Down the Coral Reefs (2004, background): “There is no evidence that the rate of reef degradation has begun to decrease (Patterson et al. 2002, Szmant 2002, Wilkinson 2002, Buddemeier and Ware 2003, Gardner et al. 2003, Garrison et al. 2003, Lang 2003).”
Contrasting population genetic structures of sympatric, mass-spawning Caribbean corals (2006, background): “Degradation frequently is noted for Caribbean coral reefs (Hughes 1994; Hughes and Tanner 2000; Gardner et al. 2003) with a growing indication that the Great Barrier Reef system of Communicated by S.”
Phase shift to algal dominated communities at mesophotic depths associated with lionfish (Pterois volitans) invasion on a Bahamian coral reef (2011, background): “Extreme storm events (i.e., hurricanes) have the potential to cause significant damage to shallow coral reefs (Hughes et al. 2003), and they have increased in severity in recent years ( Emanuel 2005 ), which might result in damage to reefs at greater depths.”
Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs (2009, background): “The most profound effects have occurred in the Caribbean where declines of shallow-water zooxanthellate scleractinian corals are closely linked to the loss of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum, increasing incidence of coral disease, recurring disturbance events such as hurricanes, and coral bleachin”
Effects of herbivores, nutrient enrichment, and their interactions on macroalgal proliferation and coral growth (2009, background): “Since the mid 1970s, corals on Caribbean reefs have declined from about 50% to about 10% cover (Gardner et al. 2003), a rate of decline unprecedented within the Holocene for at least some coral groups (e.”
Reviewing the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sexual Reproduction and Early Life History Stages of Reef-Building Corals (2011, background): “m al fo rm at io n ) of pr im ar y po ly ps K u ri h ar a 20 08 [4 6]”
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Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs (2008, background): “This is what we have seen over the past few decades, as living coral cover has decreased on average by one-third to more than two-thirds worldwide [11,12].”
Differential competitive abilities between Caribbean coral species and a brown alga: a year of experiments and a long-term perspective (2006, background): “…3 decades many Caribbean coral reefs have experienced ‘phase shifts’ in which benthic algae have replaced reef-building corals (Hughes 1994, Shulman & Robertson 1996, McClanahan & Muthiga 1998, McClanahan et al. 1999, Ostrander et al. 2000, Jackson et al. 2001, Edmunds 2002, Gardner et al. 2003).”
Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity (2009, background): “The marked declines in live hard coral cover documented over recent decades throughout the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific regions (Gardner et al. 2003; Bruno & Selig 2007) exceed those reported for many other foundation species in terrestrial or marine ecosystems (Balmford et al.”
The 27–year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes (2012, background): “and possibly elevated nutrient run-off (20; 21; 22).”