Phase-shift in coral reef communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), USA

By R. Maliao, R. Turingan, Junda Lin. 2008

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. Jerker Lokrantz
2. A. Norström
3. Carl Folke
4. M. Nyström
5. J. Porter
6. W. Nelson
7. Kathleen M. Morrow
8. N. Chadwick

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Norström
2. Jerker Lokrantz
3. M. Nyström
4. Carl Folke
5. J. Porter
6. W. Nelson
7. Kathleen M. Morrow
8. N. Chadwick

In Oceanography

1. M. Nyström
2. Carl Folke
3. Jerker Lokrantz
4. J. Porter
5. W. Nelson
6. A. Norström
7. Kathleen M. Morrow
8. N. Chadwick

Citations in the corpus

• Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, result): “This transition has been ascribed to the Florida Keys before (Pandolfi et al. 2005, Maliao et al. 2008), but these studies came to this conclusion using shorter time series (e.g. <5 yr in Maliao et al. 2008).”
• Cold-water event of January 2010 results in catastrophic benthic mortality on patch reefs in the Florida Keys (2012, background): “…is most commonly associated with this change (Hughes 1994; Rogers and Miller 2006; Norström et al. 2009), but elevated levels of macroalgal cover have not been sustained on Florida Keys reefs following catastrophic disturbances (Maliao et al. 2008; Somerfield et al. 2008; Ruzicka et al. 2010).”
• The role of sponge competition on coral reef alternative steady states (2011, unknown): “In coral reefs, several empirical studies have revealed phase shifts in the community structure that mostly favour large fleshy algae over coral (Gardner et al., 2003; Hughes, 1994;Maliao et al., 2008;McClanahan andMuthiga, 1998; McManus and Polsenberg, 2004).”
• Calcified macroalgae - critical to coastal ecosystems and vulnerable to change: a review (2009, background): “Reductions in herbivory as a result of overfishing coupled with increases in nutrients have led to overgrowth of coral by fleshy algae leading to reef degradation, a phenemenon some researchers consider to represent a phase-shift in these communities (Diaz-Pulido et al. 2007; Maliao et al. 2008).”
• Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts (2009, background): “Anecdotal reports of coral reefs becoming dominated by corallimorpharians following extensive coral mortality were found from the western Indian Ocean (Rajasuriya & Karunarathna 2000) and the Indo-Pacific (Ridzwan 1993).”
• Competition Among Sessile Organisms on Coral Reefs (2011, background): “A 5-year dataset (1996–2000) encompassing 20 reef sites in Florida documented a reduction in the percent cover of stony corals (from 8.1% to 4.6%), followed by an equivalent increase in the percent cover of mac- roalgae (from 5.7% to 9.6%, Maliao et al. 2008).”