Competition between corals and algae on coral reefs: a review of evidence and mechanisms

By L. McCook, J. Jompa, G. Diaz-Pulido. Coral reefs, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Allelopathy of Aquatic Autotrophs (2003, background): “However, often corals are target and not donor organisms, that is, they are susceptible to (inhibitory) allelochemicals released by co-occurring algae (McCook et al., 2001).”
Feeding complementarity versus redundancy among herbivorous fishes on a Caribbean reef (2011, positive): “Herbivores are important drivers of community structure on coral reefs because they suppress macroalgae and facilitate productive filamentous algae (Carpenter 1986; Hay 1991; Burkepile and Hay 2006; Mumby 2006) as well as facilitate the recruitment, growth, and survivorship of corals by preventing c”
Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs for Monitoring and Management: A Review (2016, background): “Overfishing of herbivorous fishes can promote the degradation of reef communities by promoting the growth of algae, which can out-compete corals and inhibit the settlement of coral recruits [150,151].”
Ecology of the Invasive Red Alga Gracilaria salicornia (Rhodophyta) on O'ahu, Hawai'i (2004, background): “…including overfishing and eutrophication (Littler and Littler 1984, Lapointe 1997, McClanahan 1997, Miller et al. 1999, McClanahan et al. 2001, McCook et al. 2001, Smith et al. 2001, Stimson et al. 2001, Thacker et al. 2001); future research should investigate the impacts of invasive…”
Competition Among Sessile Organisms on Coral Reefs (2011, background): “…corals can prevent algal settlement on their live tissues (Diaz-Pulido and McCook 2004), but newly settled recruits and juveniles are more vulnerable to algal overgrowth than are adult corals, due to their small size and greater sensitivity to physiological challenges (McCook et al. 2001, Fig.”
40 Years of benthic community change on the Caribbean reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire: the rise of slimy cyanobacterial mats (2017, background): “The obvious decline in coral cover and the increase in algal abundance from 1973 to 2000 match those observed on coral reefs throughout the wider Caribbean region (Gardner et al. 2003; Bak et al. 2005; Jackson et al. 2014) and worldwide (Hughes 1994; McCook et al. 2001 ).”
Network resilience (2020, background): “For example, in the coral reef system, there is a simple linear relationship between coral and fishing [147, 101].”
Recovery of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum promotes scleractinian coral growth and survivorship on shallow Jamaican reefs (2010, background): “Potential coral settlement and growth space can be preempted by macroalgae reducing hard substratum available for settlement and lateral growth by corals (Hughes & Tanner 2000, McCook et al. 2001).”
Competitive effects of macroalgae on the fecundity of the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis (2008, background): “…· Coral · Macroalgae · Energy allocation Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 367: 143–152, 2008 macroalgal blooms are mostly a consequence of coral mortality, rather than the prime cause (McCook et al. 2001, Diaz-Pulido & McCook 2002).”
Sediment‐mediated suppression of herbivory on coral reefs: Decreasing resilience to rising sea‐levels and climate change? (2008, background): “Moreover, algal distribution is strongly shaped by patterns of herbivory, especially fish herbivory (McCook et al. 2001; Burkepile and Hay 2006; Littler et al. 2006).”
Effects of benthic algae on the replenishment of corals and the implications for the resilience of coral reefs (2008, background): “Their resilience, or capacity to resist or recover from these disturbances, is critical to their long-term chico l. biRREll ET Al. persistence and contributions to economies (Mccook et al. 2001b, hughes et al. 2007).”
Algal contact as a trigger for coral disease (2004, background): “The alga itself may damage coral tissue through physical abrasion or shading or by allelochemical effects (McCook et al. 2001).”