RECRUITMENT FAILURE, LIFE HISTORIES, AND LONG‐TERM DECLINE OF CARIBBEAN CORALS

By Terry P. Hughes, Jason Tanner. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Competitive effects of macroalgae on the fecundity of the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis (2008, background): “Populations of M. annularis are characterised by low recruitment rates (Bak & Engel 1979, Mumby 1999), despite an annual mass-spawning of gametes in late summer (Szmant 1991), and are therefore predicted to take many decades to recover to previous levels (Hughes & Tanner 2000).”
40 Years of benthic community change on the Caribbean reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire: the rise of slimy cyanobacterial mats (2017, background): “It is commonly assumed that deeper reefs are less subjected to anthropogenic impacts and events such as hurricanes, bleaching or harmful blooms and serve as potential refugia or buffer for coral reef species (Glynn 1996 ; Hughes and Tanner 2000).”
Evolution of local recruitment and its consequences for marine populations (2002, background): “In this case, larval dispersal may be important evolutionarily, but its demographic role in maintaining local populations can be far exceeded by ‘self-seeding’ of asexual offspring (e.g., Hughes and Tanner, 2000).”
Allelochemicals produced by Caribbean macroalgae and cyanobacteria have species-specific effects on reef coral microorganisms (2011, background): “…adult corals, but also a decrease in coral recruitment by reducing larval settlement and post-settlement survival (reviewed in Birrell et al. 2008; Ritson-Williams et al. 2009), indicating that macroalgae alter the overall structure of reef communities (Hughes and Tanner 2000; Kuffner et al. 2006).”
Effects of the benthic cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula on larval recruitment of the reef corals Acropora surculosa and Pocillopora damicornis (2004, background): “Successful coral recruitment is critical to the regeneration of reefs, and recruitment failuremay be a major reason that reefs are not recovering from phase shifts (Hughes and Connell 1999; Hughes and Tanner 2000).”
Connectivity, regime shifts and the resilience of coral reefs (2009, background): “…Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia e-mail: toby.elmhirst@jcu.edu.au S. R. Connolly School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia inhibit their recruitment (e.g., Hughes and Tanner 2000; Mumby 2006; Hughes et al. 2007).”
Confronting the coral reef crisis (2004, background): “Degraded reefs exhibit declining rates of coral recruitment, through a poorly understood combination of reduced adult fecundities, lower settlement, and higher rates of early mortality (for example, due to smothering by algae and sediment”
Revisiting the catastrophic die-off of the urchin Diadema antillarum on Caribbean coral reefs: Fresh insights on resilience from a simulation model (2006, methodology): “Hughes and Tanner (2000) used Leslie matrix models to explore the dynamics of several species of coral in Jamaica, which have been heavily impacted by fishing and loss of Diadema.”
Cold-water event of January 2010 results in catastrophic benthic mortality on patch reefs in the Florida Keys (2012, background): “Recent declines have been reported for M. annularis complex throughout much of the Caribbean and have been linked to a suite of acute and chronic stressors (Hughes and Tanner 2000; Rogers and Miller 2006; Edmunds and Elahi 2007).”
Patch dynamics of coral reef macroalgae under chronic and acute disturbance (2005, unknown): “The outcome of such competition includes a decline in the growth rates of both competitors (de Ruyter van Steveninck et al. 1988b; Jompa and McCook 2002a), reductions in the fecundity of corals (Tanner 1995), and even coral mortality (Bak and Engel 1979; Hughes and Tanner 2000; Lirman 2001).”
Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management (2015, background): “OA: ocean acidification Adam et al.: Herbivory and Caribbean coral reefs critically low densities, limiting their ability to successfully reproduce and ultimately leading to regionwide recruitment failure (Knowlton 1992, Hughes & Tanner 2000).”
Evidence for a decadal-scale decline in the growth rates of juvenile scleractinian corals (2007, background): “…come either from cohort analyses, where the proportion of colonies growing out of the juvenile stage is determined for a fixed interval of time (Hughes 1984, Fong & Glynn 1998, Hughes & Tanner 2000), or through the direct measurement of size over time (e.g. Van Moorsel 1985, 1988, Babcock 1991).”
Water quality of the Great Barrier Reef: distributions, effects on reef biota and trigger values for the protection of ecosystem health (2008, background): “Macroalgae are a particularly important factor determining coral recruitment as they inhibit coral recruitment by space occupancy, allelopathy, silt trapping or shading (Connell et al., 1997; Hughes and Tanner, 2000; Szmant, 2002; Schaffelke et al., 2005).”
Recruitment failure in Florida Keys Acropora palmata, a threatened Caribbean coral (2008, background): “Similar recruitment failure coinciding with increasing adult mortality among foliaceous Caribbean coral species less prone to fragmentation (e.g., Hughes and Tanner 2000) resulted in a pattern that resembled an “extinction vortex,” a term used to describe accelerating feedbacks of population…”