RESILIENCE TO LARGE‐SCALE DISTURBANCE IN CORAL AND FISH ASSEMBLAGES ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

By A. Halford, A. Cheal, D. Ryan, D. M. Williams. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages (2016, background): “The re- establishment of habitat forming organisms such as branching corals is subject to inherently slow and variable ecological processes such as growth and recruitment (Fenner 1991, Halford et al. 2004, Gardner et al. 2005).”
Thirty Years of Research on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (1986–2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities (2017, background): “Given their strong reliance on corals and coral-dominated habitats, the abundance and diversity of reef fishes are expected to recover in direct accordance with recovery and reassembly of coral assemblages [211,212].”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, background): “There are a few studies that have considered differential recovery of fishes to major disturbances [44,134], but still too few to conduct a meaningful meta-analysis and establish general patterns of differential resilience among coral reef fishes.”
Declines in the abundance of Chaetodon butterflyfishes following extensive coral depletion (2006, background): “While this study did not control for the effects of coral depletion, butterflyfishes are reasonably long-lived (Berumen, 2005), and in the absence of habitat perturbations, exhibit little or no interannual variation in abundance (Halford et al., 2004).”
Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “Reef fish communities have considerable resilience to disturbance and can recover from cyclones and bleaching events over years to decades, provided that benthic habitat recovers (Halford et al. 2004).”
Comparative Effects of Different Disturbances in Coral Reef Habitats in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, background): “Disturbances play an important role in the structure and dynamics of marine communities and are a necessary part of ecosystem dynamics [1–4].”
Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef (2008, methodology): “One showed widespread decreases in both fish diversity and abundance following major coral declines on contiguous reef slopes on 4 outer reefs (Halford et al. 2004).”
Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “…displace and/or overturn entire coral colonies, simultaneously reducing both live coral cover and structural complexity (e.g., cheal et al. 2002, halford et al. 2004, baird et al. 2005). biological disturbances can have severe effects but these effects appear to be limited to fishes that are…”
Coral bleaching, reef fish community phase shifts and the resilience of coral reefs (2006, methodology): “The first three are commonly utilized methods for evaluating changes in reef assemblages following disturbance (e.g. Sano, 2000; Halford et al., 2004; Jones et al., 2004).”