Permanent 'phase shifts' or reversible declines in coral cover? Lack of recovery of two coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands

By C. Rogers, Jeff Miller. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Archipelago-wide coral recovery patterns since 1998 in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean (2008, background): “On many reefs, algal abundance increased substantially too (Rogers & Miller 2006).”
Phase-shift in coral reef communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), USA (2008, background): “Long-term monitoring of coral reefs in the Florida Keys (1981–1991) and US Virgin Islands (1989–2003) have indicated no evidence of recovery in terms of coral cover or reduction of algal abundance over a decadal time scale (Porter and Meier 1992; Rogers and Miller 2006 ).”
Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “This misunderstanding has led to liberal use of ‘phase shifts’ to describe general decreases in stony coral cover and relative increases in the abundance of other taxa (Rogers & Miller 2006, Bruno et al. 2009).”
Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs (2010, background): “The biotic changes may constitute large or small changes in a community, and there is no criterion for the extent of alteration required to call a change a phase shift (Rogers & Miller 2006, Bruno et al. 2009).”
Coral Reef Algae (2011, background): “There is a preponderance of evidence that reductions in live coral cover have been followed by phase shifts to algal dominance (Hughes 1994; McCook 1999; Diaz-Pulida and McCook 2002; McClanahan and Muthiga 2002; Rogers and Miller 2006), although one meta-analysis suggests that recent increases in do”
Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts (2009, background): “…shifts have been reported from the Caribbean (Hughes 1994, Shulman & Robertson 1996, McClanahan & Muthiga 1998, Ostrander et al. 2000, Rogers & Miller 2006), eastern Africa (Graham et al. 2006, Ledlie et al. 2007), Australia (Hatcher 1984) and the eastern Pacific (Maragos et al.…”
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).”
Recovery of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum promotes scleractinian coral growth and survivorship on shallow Jamaican reefs (2010, background): “Degraded reefs in the Caribbean have shown little or no evidence of recovery from a macroalgae-dominated state (e.g. Rogers & Miller 2006).”
Evidence for a decadal-scale decline in the growth rates of juvenile scleractinian corals (2007, background): “Starting in 1996, the growth of juvenile corals has been measured as part of a long-term monitoring program along the south coast of St. John (described in detail in Edmunds 2002, 2004, 2006, Edmunds & Elahi 2007; see also Rogers & Beets 2001, Rogers & Miller 2006).”
Chemically mediated interactions between macroalgae Dictyota spp. and multiple life-history stages of the coral Porites astreoides (2011, background): “…reduced herbivory and increased nutrient availability can cause or perpetuate phase shifts, few studies have investigated the mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of high algal cover on disturbed reefs (Rogers & Miller 2006, Hughes et al. 2007, 2010, Mumby & Steneck 2008, Mumby 2009).”