Detection of alternative stable states in marine communities

By P. Petraitis, S. Dudgeon. 2004

238 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. Peter J. Mumby
2. J. Bruno
3. R. Aronson
4. W. Precht
5. J. Porter
6. JA Idjadi
7. L. Persson
8. A. Roos

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter J. Mumby
2. J. Bruno
3. W. Precht
4. R. Aronson
5. A. Roos
6. Arne Schröder
7. L. Persson
8. S. Dudgeon

In Oceanography

1. Peter J. Mumby
2. J. Bruno
3. J. Porter
4. R. Aronson
5. W. Precht
6. L. Cardona
7. A. Roos
8. Arne Schröder

Citations in the corpus

• Recovery of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum promotes scleractinian coral growth and survivorship on shallow Jamaican reefs (2010, background): “The results from this study are consistent with the idea of Petraitis & Dudgeon (2004) that the alternative stable-states view is not supported on Caribbean coral reefs and that switches between coraland macroalgae-dominated communities are relatively simple, non-hysteretic, phase-shift responses…”
• Phase-shift in coral reef communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), USA (2008, background): “It is unclear whether the current state of the Caribbean coral reefs represents a permanent phase-shift or that the community structure would rebound (Petraitis and Dudgeon 2004).”
• Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “The term ‘phase shift’ implies a switch in the dominant organisms of a community (Petraitis & Dudgeon 2004), but this term has not been well articulated because ‘dominance’ has often been poorly defined (Bruno et al. 2009).”
• Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review (2005, background): “…support from a wide range of natural systems like lakes, woodlands and oceans (Scheffer et al. 2001, Resilience and SFI 2004), marine communities (Petraitis and Dudgeon 2004), ponds (Cottenie et al. 2001), forests (McCune and Allen 1985) and rivers (Dent et al. 2002) indicating that ASS can be…”
• Network resilience (2020, background): “Moreover, most studies on the transition from coral-dominated to algal-dominated states do not distinguish between simple quantitative changes and dramatic qualitative changes associated with multiple stable states and hysteresis [70].”
• Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs (2010, methodology): “PHASE SHIFTS AND ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATES ON CORAL REEFS Petraitis & Dudgeon (2004) reviewed evidence of changes in community state in tropical reef ecosystems around the world in the context of whether those changes represented either phase shifts or alternative stable states.”
• Historic diet change of the South American sea lion in Patagonia as revealed by isotopic analysis (2009, background): “…such extraordinary changes in their structure and function (Springer et al. 2003, Emslie & Patterson 2007) that, if the system has reached a new stable state, these may prevent the restoration of the original dynamics of the ecosystem once human exploitation ceases (Petraitis & Dudgeon 2004).”
• Sea urchin barrens as alternative stable states of collapsed kelp ecosystems (2014, unknown): “Considerable attention has been directed towards establishing criteria for defining an alternative stable state (Connell & Sousa 1983, Beisner et al. 2003, Petraitis & Dudgeon 2004).”