Appraisal of visual assessments of habitat complexity and benthic composition on coral reefs

By S. Wilson, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Nicholas Polunin. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations in the North Atlantic and implications for their effective spatial management (2016, methodology): “Further information on the specifics of using topographic variables as surrogates is available in existing literature (Kostylev et al., 2005; Wilson et al., 2007; Guinan et al., 2009; ; Ross and Howell 2013).”
Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities (2008, background): “In the Lau Islands, topographic complexity, which is relevant to large- and medium-sized fish (Wilson et al., 2007), has been maintained; however, the loss of Acropora coral has reduced rugosity.”
Coral mortality versus structural collapse as drivers of corallivorous butterflyfish decline (2009, methodology): “Benthic cover of functional forms of hard corals, soft corals, macroalgae, sand, rock and rubble was estimated visually and checked for accuracy against the line-intercept method (Wilson et al. 2007).”
Variation in the structure of epifaunal invertebrate assemblages among coral hosts (2010, background): “…diversity of habitats and topographic complexity provided by scleractinian corals (Luckhurst and Luckhurst 1978; Sale 1991; McClanahan 1994; Jennings et al. 1996; Öhman and Rajasuriya 1998; Lawson et al. 1999; Lindahl et al. 2001; Gratwicke and Speight 2005; Garpe et al. 2006; Wilson et al. 2007).”
Using 3D photogrammetry from ROV video to quantify cold-water coral reef structural complexity and investigate its influence on biodiversity and community assemblage (2019, background): “Coral reef structural complexity influences marine biodiversity and community structure at multiple scales (Friedlander and Parrish 1998; Gratwicke and Speight 2005; Wilson et al. 2007; Graham and Nash 2013; Richardson et al. 2017).”
The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems (2012, background): “…to their body size (Hixon and Beets 1993), a greater abundance of smaller size class fish in the community may be expected to elicit a stronger response to changes in available complexity because complexity on reefs is often at a scale that influences these size classes (Wilson et al. 2007).”
Primacy of seascape connectivity effects in structuring coral reef fish assemblages (2012, background): “Coral reef rugosity and coral cover are important drivers of spatial variation in reef fish assemblages (e.g. Wilson et al. 2007) and were surveyed along the same belt transects used to quantify fish abundance, to describe intra-habitat variation in reef habitat among locations.”
Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity (2009, methodology): “The rugosity index is by far the most widely used method for measuring reef architectural complexity (see electronic supplementary material for further details) and is generally highly correlated with other methods ( Wilson et al. 2007 ).”
Phase shifts and the role of herbivory in the resilience of coral reefs (2007, background): “Visual estimates of these benthic parameters provide comparable values to line intercept transects for benthic composition (no significant difference P = 0.639) and linear versus contour chain distance for structural complexity (significantly correlated, P < 0.001) (Wilson et al. 2007).”
Maintenance of fish diversity on disturbed coral reefs (2009, background): “This technique provides estimates that correlate well with other complexity measures (e.g., rugosity and reef height) and is strongly correlated with species richness of reef fish communities (Wilson et al. 2007).”
Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “…& luckhurst 1978, Mcclanahan 1994, Jennings et al. 1996, Öhman & Rajasuriya 1998, lawson et al. 1999, Gratwicke & speight 2005, Garpe et al. 2006, Wilson et al. 2007) and some authors perceive that live coral is largely irrelevant, except in providing habitat diversity and topographic complexity…”