PHASE SHIFTS, ALTERNATIVE STATES, AND THE UNPRECEDENTED CONVERGENCE OF TWO REEF SYSTEMS

By R. Aronson, I. Macintyre, Cheryl M. Wapnick, Matthew W. O'neill. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Increasing relative abundance of Porites astreoides on Caribbean reefs mediated by an overall decline in coral cover (2008, background): “In a growing number of cases, the coral community has been monitored long enough following the disturbance(s), such that shifts already have been detected in coral species composition (Loya et al. 2001) and the relative abundance of differing lifehistory strategies (Aronson et al. 2004).”
Long-Term Stasis in Ecological Assemblages: Evidence from the Fossil Record* (2004, background): “Aronson & Precht (1997) and Aronson et al. (2002, 2004) documented a change in the dominant coral in Belize and Panama that occurred recently.”
Temporal variability and impact of coral diseases and bleaching in La Parguera, Puerto Rico from 2003–2007 (2009, background): “…reductions in coral cover and population sizes of major reef-building genera, particularly, in the Caribbean region where coral diseases have played an important role in coral mortality (Aronson et al. 2004; Weil 2004; Miller et al. 2006, 2009; Bruckner and Bruckner 2006; Bruckner and Hill 2009).”
Coral Reef Algae (2011, background): “…the Caribbean showed a clear pattern of increased coral recruitment in places where Diadema urchin recovery and grazing had reduced fleshy algal abundance and simultaneously increased the population density of juvenile corals (Edmunds and Carpenter 2001; Aronson et al. 2004; Macintyre et al. 2005).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “Increasing evidence suggests that differential vulnerability of coral species to a range of stressors, and variation in recovery potential is leading to shifts in species dominance towards taxa with stress-tolerant and/or weedy life-histories (Aronson et al. 2004; van Woesik et al. 2011; Darling et ”
Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “However, other examples of weedy takeovers include small, encrusting sponges (Aronson et al. 2002) and smaller brooding corals like Porites astreoides (Green et al. 2008) and Agaricia tenuifolia (Aronson & Precht 1997, Aronson et al. 2004).”
Differential competitive abilities between Caribbean coral species and a brown alga: a year of experiments and a long-term perspective (2006, background): “…on Caribbean reefs (Williams et al. 2001a,b) and evidence that coral bleaching and disease have precipitated dramatic ecological shifts at several reef locations worldwide (Ostrander et al. 2000, Aronson & Pretch 2001, McClanahan et al. 2001, Diaz-Pulido & McCook 2002, Aronson et al. 2004).”
Effect of macroalgal competition on growth and survival of juvenile Caribbean corals (2007, background): “Agaricia spp. are among the predominant hermatypic corals on Caribbean reefs (Aronson et al. 2004, Bak et al. 2005) and their adult populations are considered particularly vulnerable to short term changes in their recruitment success (Hughes & Tanner 2000).”
Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice (2008, background): “2004; Scheffer and van Nes 2007) may involve declining water quality (Lapointe 1997; Mora 2008), spatial homogenization (Aronson et al. 2004), and loss of species within important functional groups, such as herbivores (Jackson et al.”
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook (2008, background): “Whether caused primarily by bleaching (Lesser et al., 2007) or diseases (Aronson et al., 1998), these changes have led to phase-shifts away from coral dominance in many regions (Hughes, 1994), and are leading to persistent changes in coral community structure in others (Aronson et al., 2002, 2004).”
Permanent 'phase shifts' or reversible declines in coral cover? Lack of recovery of two coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands (2006, background): “Should the term also be used for cases where coral species have replaced other coral species, and is such a situation also a sign of reef degradation (see Aronson et al. 2004)?”
Patterns of association between Symbiodinium and members of the Montastraea annularis species complex on spatial scales ranging from within colonies to between geographic regions (2006, background): “…the coral community of the southern lagoon of Belize has become more similar to the coral community in Bocas del Toro, Panama in the past twenty years by turning over from an Acroporadominated reef to a reef dominated by Agaricia tenufolia and most recently by Porites furcata (Aronson et al. 2004).”
New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs (2008, background): “In the past 30 years Agaricia tenuifolia has replaced other corals to dominate the community on two reefs that had historically different community compositions (Aronson et al., 2004).”
Reef recovery 20 years after the 1982–1983 El Niño massive mortality (2007, background): “No phase shifts in reef structure occurred, as reported for the Caribbean (Hughes 1994; Aronson et al. 2004).”
Recent disturbances augment community shifts in coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, background): “…dominance of Pocillopora and Porites represents either: (1) a transitional community state, indicative of either continuing degradation or recovery (Aronson et al. 2004), or (2) an entirely new, stable, and resilient community structure that will endure until there is a fundamental change in local…”
Breakdown of the coral-algae symbiosis: towards formalising a linkage between warm-water bleaching thresholds and the growth rate of the intracellular zooxanthellae (2012, unknown): “For example, the drilling record recovered by Aronson et al. (2004) details that for at least 2000–3000 yr prior to the last several decades, Belizean reefs were dominated by BGD 9, 8111–8139, 2012 Breakdown of the coral-algae The present day reefs in Belize however, have become dominated to a…”
Recovery without resilience: persistent disturbance and long-term shifts in the structure of fish and coral communities at Tiahura Reef, Moorea (2006, background): “However, the current Pocilloporadominated state may be a transitional phase, indicative of either continuing degradation or recovery (Aronson et al. 2004).”