Multiple disturbances and the global degradation of coral reefs: are reef fishes at risk or resilient?

By S. Wilson, Nicholas A. J. Graham, M. Pratchett, Geoffrey P. Jones, Nicholas Polunin. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Herbivore cross‐scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience (2016, background): “Herbivorous fishes exhibit a range of responses following coral loss (Wilson et al. 2006), indicative of considerable response diversity within this group (Pratchett et al. 2011; Thibaut, Connolly & Sweatman 2011).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “Broad scale loss of coral cover can cause concomitant declines in fish abundance and biomass (Wilson et al. 2006), diversity (Sano et al.”
Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “Declines in coral cover nearly always cause corresponding declines in the abundances of coraldependent species (Wilson et al. 2006), but specialist species that inhabit or consume just one or a few coral species often suffer the greatest declines because they are unable to use alternative coral…”
Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities (2008, background): “Declines in fish that either feed or shelter within live coral can be directly attributed to coral loss, a result that has been widely reported in the literature (Wilson et al., 2006).”
Influence of habitat degradation on fish replenishment (2010, methodology): “…studies have now shown that tropical fish assemblages change in abundance with habitat disturbance (e.g., Booth and Beretta 2002; Jones et al. 2004; Garpe et al. 2006; Wilson et al. 2006; Graham et al. 2007; Pratchett et al. 2008), the mechanism responsible for these changes is poorly understood.”
Diversity and functional importance of coral‐feeding fishes on tropical coral reefs (2008, background): “corallivores) are more reliant than others (Jones 1991; Jones and Syms 1998; Robertson 1998; Wilson et al. 2006).”
Latitudinal shifts in coral reef fishes: why some species do and others do not shift (2014, background): “As reductions in coral cover nearly always cause corresponding declines in the abundances of such coral-dependent species (Wilson et al. 2006; Feary et al. 2007a; Emslie et al. 2011), we predict that reliance on coral resources is likely to constrain the shifts of these species into temperate reef h”
Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands (2008, result): “A recent meta-analysis documented an increase in fish species richness with moderate declines in coral cover that shifted to a decrease in richness with more severe declines of coral [52], consistent with the model of intermediate disturbance.”
Maintenance of fish diversity on disturbed coral reefs (2009, background): “Moreover, most reef fishes are closely associated with the reef substratum (Choat and Bellwood 1991), making them very susceptible to disturbances that alter the biological and/or physical structure of coral reef habitats (Wilson et al. 2006; Pratchett et al. 2008a, b).”
Thirty Years of Research on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (1986–2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities (2017, background): “Of greater concern, however, is that the time required for effective recovery relative to projected increases in the incidence of major disturbances [213], whereby the effects of CoTS outbreaks on coral and non-coral communities will be increasingly compounded by other”