Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

By Nicholas A. J. Graham, S. Jennings, M. MacNeil, David Mouillot, S. Wilson. Nature, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits, and reef fish assemblages (2017, methodology): “…with a range of other 129 structural complexity measurement techniques (Wilson et al. 2007), to strongly 130 predict coral and reef fish diversity (Polunin and Roberts 1993; Chong-Seng et al. 131 2012; Newman et al. 2015), and reef recovery following mass bleaching events 132 (Graham et al. 2015).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “2011), and ecosystem recovery potential (Graham et al. 2015), and have identified predictable outcomes for ecosystem function.”
A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges (2020, background): “The semi-pristine fish community allowed for baselines in a range of community-level life history and functional metrics, including maximum length, length at maturity and abundance of top predators and grazers, to be benchmarked across the region (McClanahan and Graham 2015; McClanahan et al.”
Changing geo‐ecological functions of coral reefs in the Anthropocene (2018, background): “…on the growth of remnant corals (Gilmour et al., 2013; Halford, Cheal, Ryan, & Williams, 2004), there is evidence showing that in the absence of further stressors, reefs can recover both in terms of overall coral cover and in terms of habitat complexity (Gilmour et al., 2013; Graham et al., 2015).”
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, background): “For example, some reefs are transitioning from coral- to algal-dominated states as a consequence of mass coral mortality (130), whereas kelp forests are turning into rocky barrens in temperate seas (90, 131, 132).”
Integrating ecological roles and trophic diversification on coral reefs: multiple lines of evidence identify parrotfishes as microphages (2016, background): “Coral reef ecologists have typically employed a plantbased approach to herbivory, and algal removal by herbivores is considered to have a major influence on the ecological functioning and health of reef ecosystems (Mumby, 2006; Hughes et al., 2007; Jackson et al., 2014; Graham et al., 2015; Bozec et”
The shape of success in a turbulent world: wave exposure filtering of coral reef herbivory (2017, background): “…Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society., 31, 1312–1324 advocated as a suitable proxy for herbivory (Heenan & Williams 2013; Graham et al. 2015; Jouffray et al. 2015), our results suggest that may not be the case at the ends of environmental gradients.”
Harnessing ecological processes to facilitate coral restoration (2018, unknown): “Robust herbivore populations can suppress macroalgal cover, minimize coral–algal competition, increase coral growth and recruitment, and facilitate the recovery of coral populations after disturbances (Graham et al. 2015; Zaneveld et al. 2016).”
Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios (2015, unknown): “Coral reefs can recover from bleaching events when thermal stress is minimal and of short duration (52).”
Herbivore cross‐scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience (2016, background): “Nonetheless, the extent to which fishery management actions alone will bolster resilience at individual sites will depend on the relative contribution of other factors such as reef structural complexity, coral recruitment, water depth, nutrient regimes and coral community composition that have contr”
Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “…the ocean is resulting in in - creasingly frequent mass coral bleaching events (Hughes, Anderson et al., 2018a) that are transforming coral assemblages (Hughes, Kerry et al., 2018b) and in some cases causing regime shifts to fleshy macroalgae (Graham, Jennings, MacNeil, Mouillot, & Wilson, 2015).”
The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems to Climatic Disturbances (2017, background): “However, even in the populated islands of the Seychelles, where a major bleaching event resulted in loss of >90% of coral cover, over half of the reefs recovered to pre‐disturbance levels within 15 years (Graham et al. 2015).”