Seasonal Dynamics of Macroalgal Communities of the Northern Florida Reef Tract

By D. Lirman, Peter Biber. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. J. Smith
2. Brian Lapointe
3. B. Bedford
4. P. Fong
5. Valerie J. Paul
6. M. Littler
7. D. S. Littler
8. A. Szmant

In Oceanography

1. Valerie J. Paul
2. J. Smith
3. P. Fong
4. Brian Lapointe
5. B. Bedford
6. M. Littler
7. D. S. Littler
8. A. Szmant

Citations in the corpus

• Nutrient enrichment on coral reefs: Is it a major cause of coral reef decline? (2002, background): “Leichter and Miller (1999) have shown upwelling events to be more frequent during the summer, when Florida reef algae achieve higher cover and biomass (Lirman and Biber 2000; Szmant unpublished data).”
• Testing a new classification of morphological functional groups of marine macroalgae for the detection of responses to stress (2011, background): “In oceanic system, morphological‐functional groups are widely used to describe macroalgal assemblages (Vadas and Steneck 1988; Lirman and Biber 2000; Vanderklift and Lavery 2000; Konar and Iken 2009) to address physiological questions (Littler and Arnold 1982; Johansson and Snoeijs 2002) and to ex”
• Climate change and ocean acidification effects on seagrasses and marine macroalgae (2013, unknown): “In support of these data, Lirman & Biber (2000) observed a high relative abundance of coralline crustose algae during seasonally high temperatures (30 –31 °C) along the Florida Keys reef tract.”
• Influence of initial tissue nutrient status of tropical marine algae on response to nitrogen and phosphorus additions (2003, background): “…spicifera, Dictyota cervicornis, and Hypnea musciformis) are all opportunistic algae with relatively high surface area-to-volume ratios (Littler & Littler 1980, Steneck & Watling 1982, Steneck & Dethier 1994), and the functional form model predicts these algae should have the ability…”
• Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the Lower Florida Keys: discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources (2004, background): “ Lirman and Biber (2000) noted that present grazing intensity by abundant reef fishes is insufficient to offset the rapid macroalgal growth and overgrowth of adjacent hermatypic reef corals on the northern Florida Reef Tract.”
• Field biology of Halimeda tuna (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) across a depth gradient: comparative growth, survivorship, recruitment, and reproduction (2003, background): “Few multi-year field studies have been undertaken to test this or related hypotheses (Shulman & Robertson, 1996; Lirman & Biber, 2000 ).”
• Assessment of coral reefs using herbivory/nutrient assays and indicator groups of benthic primary producers: a critical synthesis, proposed protocols, and critique of management strategies (2007, background): “Several studies (Hatcher, 1982; Schmitt, 1997; Lirman and Biber, 2000) found no significant correlation between grazing intensity and algal biomass.”
• Coral Reef Algae (2011, background): “For example, species of Dictyota in the Florida Keys undergo frequent fragmentation, often as a result of herbivory by fishes (Herren et al. 2006).”
• Harmful algae on tropical coral reefs: Bottom-up eutrophication and top-down herbivory (2006, background): “For example, several studies (e.g., Hatcher, 1981; Schmitt, 1997; Lirman and Biber, 2000) found no significant correlation between grazing intensity and frondose algal biomass.”
• Seasonality in Algal Assemblages on Upwelling-influenced Coral Reefs in the Colombian Caribbean (2002, background): “Caribbean (Littler and Littler 1997).Thirty-five out of the 41 taxa found in our study were widely distributed in the Caribbean. During the surveys in the upwelling periods we did not record species with temperate or subtropical affinities, which may suggest that the upwelling from the TNNP area is ”
• Macroalgal blooms on southeast Florida coral reefs I. Nutrient stoichiometry of the invasive green alga Codium isthmocladum in the wider Caribbean indicates nutrient enrichment (2005, background): “:P) coastal waters of the Florida Keys (Lapointe and Clark, 1992; Lirman and Biber, 2000; Lapointe et al., 2004).”