Epifaunal community structure in Acropora spp. (Scleractinia) on the Great Barrier Reef: implications of coral morphology and habitat complexity

By Vytopil E., Willis B.. Coral reefs, 2001

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

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In Ecology

1. Geoffrey P. Jones
2. M. Pratchett
3. M. Naumann
4. Jessica Stella
5. Russell J. Schmitt
6. Sally J. Holbrook
7. Andrew J. Brooks
8. H. Stewart

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Pratchett
2. Geoffrey P. Jones
3. Jessica Stella
4. Sally J. Holbrook
5. Russell J. Schmitt
6. Andrew J. Brooks
7. Nicholas A. J. Graham
8. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Geoffrey P. Jones
2. M. Naumann
3. Sally J. Holbrook
4. Russell J. Schmitt
5. M. Pratchett
6. Andrew J. Brooks
7. Jessica Stella
8. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg

Citations in the corpus

• Scleractinian corals as facilitators for other invertebrates on a Caribbean reef (2006, background): “While some work has been done on coral-associated invertebrates (e.g. Vytopil & Willis 2001), to date such facilitative effects have not been studied explicitly.”
• Effects of sheltering fish on growth of their host corals (2008, background): “Acropora often host a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species (e.g., Abele and Patton 1976; Lassig 1977; Patton 1994; Vytopil and Willis 2001 ).”
• Symbiotic crabs maintain coral health by clearing sediments (2006, background): “…corals, and they benefit from this association by gaining refuge from predators within the interstices of coral branches (Stachowicz and Hay 1999; Vytopil and Willis 2001), nutrition from algae growing on or near the coral (Coen 1988; Stachowicz and Hay 1999) and ingestion of coral mucus…”
• Coral surface area quantification–evaluation of established techniques by comparison with computer tomography (2008, methodology): “Surface estimates were determined by a paraffin wax coating technique modified from Stimson and Kinzie (1991) and Vytopil and Willis (2001).”
• Increasing the accuracy of surface area estimation using single wax dipping of coral fragments (2010, methodology): “Coral skeleton can be foil wrapped (Marsh 1970), wax dipped (Stimson and Kinzie 1991; Vytopil and Willis 2001 ), latex dipped (Meyers and Schultz 1985), geometrically approximated (Naumann”
• Variation in the structure of epifaunal invertebrate assemblages among coral hosts (2010, background): “Vytopil and Willis (2001) also found that associates of Acropora spp.”