Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs

By Terry P. Hughes, D. Bellwood, Sean R. Connolly. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Tropical Transpacific Shore Fishes (2004, background): “Explanations of latitudinal gradients in diversity across the IndoPacific have emphasized the importance of dispersal ability and the geologic history of the Indo-Philippine center of diversity (e.g., Hughes et al. 2002, Mora et al. 2003).”
Island biogeography: patterns of marine shallow‐water organisms in the Atlantic Ocean (2015, background): “While many studies have sought to explain reef fish endemism on islands, their findings often conflict (Hughes et al., 2002; Mora et al., 2003; DeMartini & Friedlander, 2004; Bellwood & Meyer, 2009; Rocha et al., 2010; Hobbs et al., 2012; Bowen et al., 2013).”
Socioeconomic factors that lead to overfishing in small-scale coral reef fisheries of Papua New Guinea (2006, background): “The region of South-east Asia and Melanesia, which includes the nations of Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), harbours the highest marine diversity on Earth (Hughes et al. 2002).”
Survival dynamics of scleractinian coral larvae and implications for dispersal (2008, positive): “…lifespans on the order of 200 or more days suggest that corals are able to maintain energy reserves longer than previously thought, and thus potentially to disperse very long distances, a fact that may partly explain the extraordinarily large geographic ranges of many corals (Hughes et al. 2002).”
The historical biogeography of coral reef fishes: global patterns of origination and dispersal (2013, background): “The current biodiversity of the Indian Ocean is the result of moderate cladogenesis in the region, with the majority of species being of IAA origin that maintain the Indian Ocean as part of a wider Indo-Pacific range (cf. Hughes et al., 2002).”
INDO‐PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY OF CORAL REEFS: DEVIATIONS FROM A MID‐DOMAIN MODEL (2003, background): “Because species range across multiple locations, however, estimates of species richness in different locations are not independent (Hughes et al. 2002, Jetz and Rahbek 2002).”
Strength, slope and variability of marine latitudinal gradients (2004, background): “…are more complex than simple trends with latitude: (1) regional hotspots and coldspots of diversity exist for different groups of marine organisms (Hughes et al. 2002, Price 2002, Worm et al. 2003); (2) there are strong regional aspects of diversity (Gray 2001a, Ellingsen & Gray 2002); (3)…”
Estimating patterns of reptile biodiversity in remote regions (2013, background): “Conservation actions are usually based on known biodiversity, with protected areas targeted to regions with high species richness, endemism and threat (Hughes et al., 2002; Brooks et al., 2006; Rondinini et al., 2006).”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “Moreover, in examining the applicability of the approach to the marine realm, Hughes et al. (2002) find that first, richness peaks do not coincide with centres of high endemicity in Indo-Pacific corals and reef fishes, and second, that fish and coral endemicity patterns are at variance with one…”
The marine East Indies: diversity and speciation (2005, background): “It has been pointed out (Briggs, 2002; Hughes et al., 2002) that these Journal of Biogeography 32, 1517–1522, ª 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1519 populations of endemics are not the best conservation targets because many are phylogenetic relicts that have accumulated over vast periods of time.”
Biotic Globalization: Does Competition from Introduced Species Threaten Biodiversity? (2003, background): “As a result of ocean currents that regularly transport immature corals and fish hundreds or even thousands of miles, reefs exhibit comparatively low rates of endemism and instead are typically composed of fish and coral species with large geographic ranges (Hughes et al. 2002).”
Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates (2004, background): “Small-range specialists or endemics are major contributors to areas of tropical species diversity (Stevens, 1989; Pagel et al., 1991; Hughes et al., 2002).”
Searching for heat in a marine biodiversity hotspot (2009, background): “…et al., 2002), specific countries within the IAA (Mora et al., 2003; Carpenter & Springer, 2005), archipelagos (Meyer et al., 2005), or peripheral locations outside the IAA (Kohn, 1990; Paulay, 1997; Bellwood & Wainwright, 2002; Hughes et al., 2002; Jones et al., 2002; Connolly et al., 2003).”
Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (2009, background): “This study focused on the crustacean fauna inhabiting coral reef interstices at five central Pacific Ocean localities, regions of moderate reef diversity well to the east of the coral triangle epicenter of reef diversity (Myers et al. 2000; Hughes et al. 2002; Hoeksema 2007).”
A review of contemporary patterns of endemism for shallow water reef fauna in the Red Sea (2016, background): “Additionally, Hughes et al. (2002) recognise 10% endemism in the Red Sea versus the 5.5% endemism identified in our study.”