Limited Functional Redundancy in a High Diversity System: Single Species Dominates Key Ecological Process on Coral Reefs

By A. Hoey, D. Bellwood. Ecosystems, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Feeding complementarity versus redundancy among herbivorous fishes on a Caribbean reef (2011, unknown): “Even on species-diverse coral reefs, individual species appear to play important roles in ecosystem function with reductions of species diversity leading to declines in ecosystem processes (Bellwood et al. 2003; Burkepile and Hay 2008; Hoey and Bellwood 2009).”
Cross-shelf variation in browsing intensity on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, methodology): “Leathery macroalgae is less abundant on mid-shelf reefs (\5% cover; Hoey and Bellwood 2009) and has been recorded but usually uncommon on outer-shelf reefs (McCook et al. 2000).”
Not worth the risk: apex predators suppress herbivory on coral reefs (2014, background): “Individual Sargassum thalli were attached to the reef at a depth of 2 – 4 m (following the methods of Hoey and Bellwood 2009), and positioned approximately 0.5 – 1 m in front of model predators (and object control).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “vulnerable to the loss of those species (Hoey and Bellwood 2009; Mouillot et al. 2014).”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “Biological Reviews © 2012 Cambridge Philosophical Society it is often necessary to prioritize species with functional singularity (e.g. Hoey & Bellwood, 2009).”
The shape of success in a turbulent world: wave exposure filtering of coral reef herbivory (2017, background): “However, substantial empirical evidence demonstrates subtle, yet important interspecific differences in resource use within these functional groups (Hoey & Bellwood 2009; Johansson et al. 2013; Brandl & Bellwood 2014; Brandl et al. 2015; Kartzinel et al. 2015).”
Latitudinal variation in macroalgal consumption by fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2011, background): “The diverse feeding assemblage observed in the northern, and to a lesser extent, central regions of this study stands in contrast to the limited functional redundancy reported elsewhere such as far northern reefs (Hoey & Bellwood 2009).”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, background): “However, functional redundancy among coral reef fishes may have been significantly overstated [92]; even in high diversity systems, some functions may be performed by just one or few species [30].”