Revisiting the catastrophic die-off of the urchin Diadema antillarum on Caribbean coral reefs: Fresh insights on resilience from a simulation model

By Peter J. Mumby, John D. Hedley, Kamila Zychaluk, Alastair R. Harborne, Paul G. Blackwell. 2006

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Latitudinal variation in macroalgal consumption by fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2011, result): “This finding stands in marked contrast to other systems where herbivory is low, such as those impacted by the removal of herbivores through over-fishing (Hughes 1994, Mumby et al. 2006), or cold water marine systems (Harmelin-Vivien 2002, Floeter et al. 2005).”
Recovery of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum promotes scleractinian coral growth and survivorship on shallow Jamaican reefs (2010, background): “…at Dairy Bull Reef (Idjadi et al. 2006, Precht & Aronson 2006, Crabbe 2009) occurred on reefs that were characterized as so polluted and overfished that they could not recover under current levels of protection and management (Lapointe et al. 1997, Bellwood et al. 2004, Mumby et al. 2006, 2007a).”
Model of coral population response to accelerated bleaching and mass mortality in a changing climate (2009, background): “This is in contrast to the Caribbean, where an absence of urchins has repeatedly been blamed for strong presence of macroalgae with concomitant reduction of settlement space and survival of coral larvae (Hughes, 1994; Mumby et al., 2006, 2007).”
Phase shifts and the role of herbivory in the resilience of coral reefs (2007, background): “Several studies have highlighted the fact that grazing by herbivorous fishes influences competitive interactions between corals and macroalgae (Lirman 2001; Williams and Polunin 2001; Mumby et al. 2006a; Paddack et al. 2006) and Mumby et al. (2006b) demonstrated that MPAs can enhance grazing and r”
Bioerosion: the other ocean acidification problem: Towards a Broader Perspective on Ocean Acidification Research Part 2 A special issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science (2017, background): “In addition, many grazers not only control turf biomass and various euendoliths, but are also thought to regulate macroalgal abundances, thus indirectly reinforcing coral cover (e.g. Sammarco, 1982; Mumby et al., 2006a; Mumby and Harborne, 2010; but see Clements et al., 2016).”
Crustose coralline algae can suppress macroalgal growth and recruitment on Hawaiian coral reefs (2011, unknown): “Mixed communities of CCA therefore appear to serve as yet another biotic factor capable of limiting the local abundance of macroalgae in addition to corals, herbivorous fishes, and herbivorous invertebrates (e.g. Williams et al. 2001, Mumby 2006, Mumby et al. 2006, Sandin et al. 2008).”