Regional-Scale Assembly Rules and Biodiversity of Coral Reefs

By D. Bellwood, Terry P. Hughes. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Biotic Globalization: Does Competition from Introduced Species Threaten Biodiversity? (2003, background): “As predicted by the extended unified neutral theory, reefs throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans share a common fauna (Bellwood and Hughes 2001), a biogeographic pattern that contrasts sharply with that exhibited by historic terrestrial communities in the same archipelago.”
Rapid diversity and abundance decline in a Caribbean coral reef sponge community (2006, background): “The few reports of mass mortality of multiple sponge species in the wider Caribbean region have been associated with localized acute environmental disturbances, e.g., two cyanobacterial blooms in Florida Bay between 1991 and 1993 (Butler et al., 1995; Stevely and Sweat, 2001), unusual masses of cold”
Environmental and geometric constraints on Indo-Pacific coral reef biodiversity (2005, background): “Previous explanations for patterns of richness of coral taxa have emphasized energy input (Fraser & Currie 1996) or habitat area ( Bellwood & Hughes 2001 ), but neither approach has directly evaluated MDEs.”
The formation of species pools: historical habitat abundance affects current local diversity (2011, background): “Many studies have reported positive relationships between habitat area and species diversity (Lomolino, 2000; Bellwood & Hughes, 2001; Triantis et al., 2008), but because of confounding effects of evolutionary history, dispersal limitation and local ecological factors like heterogeneity of the…”
Diversity and functional importance of coral‐feeding fishes on tropical coral reefs (2008, background): “Chief among these are coral reef fishes, an extraordinarily diverse group of species, characterized by their close association with coral reefs (Choat and Bellwood 1991; Robertson 1998; Bellwood and Hughes 2001).”
Ecological impact of beavers Castor fiber and Castor canadensis and their ability to modify ecosystems (2005, background): “…F. Rosell et al. © 2005 Mammal Society, Mammal Review , 35, ••–•• the biomass-dominant species, of their occupied functional groups (see Fox & Brown, 1993 and Bellwood & Hughes, 2001 for a definition of functional group), they could also be considered as a candidate keystone species (Davic, 2003).”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, background): “These locations are thus expected to be highly susceptible to acute disturbances, whereby the loss of entire families will compromise ecosystem function and may have a range of feedbacks that ultimately result in extensive biodiversity loss [1].”
Comparative Phylogeography of the Coral Triangle and Implications for Marine Management (2011, background): “, [9, 10]) although this is a misnomer for the Coral Triangle biodiversity hotspot, since it does not include Australia [1] and has geological origins transcending Eurasian and Indian−Australian tectonic elements [11].”
The stages of vertebrate evolutionary radiation (2003, background): “Losos and Schluter [41] report a positive association between speciation rate and island size for Caribbean anoles, and a similar relationship between habitat area and biodiversity has been uncovered for inhabitants of coral reefs [ 42 ].”
THERMOGEOGRAPHY OVER TIME CREATES BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGIONS: A TEMPERATURE/SPACE/TIME‐INTEGRATED MODEL AND AN ABUNDANCE‐WEIGHTED TEST FOR BENTHIC MARINE ALGAE (2001, background): “Area is often mentioned as a factor in both terrestrial and marine biogeography (Simpson 1953, Darlington 1957, MacArthur and Wilson 1967, Briggs 1974, Bellwood and Hughes 2001).”
Macroecology of mangroves: large-scale patterns and processes in tropical coastal forests (2002, background): “A similarly large effect of habitat area in these regions was found for coral reef fishes ( Bellwood and Hughes 2001 ), which”
The mushroom coral as a habitat (2011, background): “…23 September 2011 I N T R O D U C T I O N Among marine ecosystems, coral reefs are particularly well known for their biodiversity, usually measured by numbers of coral and fish species (Bellwood & Hughes, 2001; Hughes et al., 2002; Roberts et al., 2002; Bellwood et al., 2004; Hoeksema, 2007).”
Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs (2014, background): “WAtl, Western Atlantic Ocean; EAtl, Eastern Atlantic Ocean; WInd, Western Indian Ocean; CIP, Central Indo-Pacific Ocean; CPac, Central Pacific Ocean; TEP, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean.”
Does habitat use explain large scale species richness patterns of aquatic beetles in Europe (2003, background): “…Rohde 1999, Gaston and Blackburn 1999), although recently a few examples have been provided where habitat-related variables are included in the interpretation of macroecological patterns (Rohde and Heap 1998, Holt et al. 1999, Roy et al. 2000, Bellwood and Hughes 2001, Crawley and Harral 2001).”