Recovery from disturbance of coral and reef fish communities on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals (2009, background): “Moreover, following the mass bleaching event on the GBR in 1998, brooding species have taken longer to return to former levels of abundance than have broadcast spawning species (Emslie et al. 2008).”
Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs (2010, background): “Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:8362–8367 Ninio R, Meekan M, Done T, Sweatman H (2000) Temporal patterns in coral assemblages on the Great Barrier Reef from local to large spatial scales.”
Coral–macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, background): “…cyclonic breakdown of coral skeletons does not generally appear to limit herbivorous fish populations in the short term on the GBR (Cheal et al. 2008) unless habitat complexity is markedly simplified by removal of coral skeletons and lack of underlying substrate complexity (Emslie et al. 2008).”
Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef (2008, background): “Fish communities may be particularly at risk from loss of coral structures where the topographic complexity of the underlying substrate is very low so that most of the structural relief is provided by the corals themselves, as occurred on the southern GBR (Halford et al. 2004, Emslie et al. 2008).”