Cross-shelf benthic community structure on the Great Barrier Reef: relationships between macroalgal cover and herbivore biomass

By Sharon Wismer, A. Hoey, D. Bellwood. 2009

211 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. A. Hoey
2. D. Bellwood
3. S. Bennett
4. M. Emslie
5. H. Sweatman
6. A. Green
7. A. Cheal
8. M. Pratchett

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Hoey
2. D. Bellwood
3. S. Bennett
4. M. Emslie
5. H. Sweatman
6. A. Green
7. A. Cheal
8. M. Pratchett

Citations in the corpus

• Latitudinal variation in macroalgal consumption by fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2011, background): “…· Resilience · Coral reef Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 426: 241–252, 2011242 (McCook et al. 1997, Done et al. 2007, Diaz-Pulido et al. 2009) compared to the low macroalgal cover of the mid- and outer shelf (Wismer et al. 2009).”
• Cross-shelf variation in browsing intensity on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, background): “Given the low abundance of Sargassum and other fleshy brown macroalgae across all outer-shelf habitats on the GBR (McCook et al. 1997, 2000; Wismer et al. 2009), it appears that these fishes may be extremely efficient at locating and consuming cryptic macroalgae (i.e. small thalli and/or thalli…”
• Coral–macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, background): “(Schaffelke et al. 2009; Wismer et al. 2009).”
• Monitoring functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience : a practical guide for coral reef managers in the Asia Pacific region (2009, background): “Many of these studies have demonstrated a strong negative relationship between fish grazing intensity (particularly biomass) and macroalgal cover (Lewis 1986, Williams and Polunin 2001, Mumby et al 2006, 2007, Fox and Bellwood 2007; but see Wismer et al 2009).”
• The status of coral reef ecology research in the Red Sea (2013, background): “For example, cross-shelf variation in benthic communities on the GBR, in particular the high macroalgal cover on inshore reefs, has been suggested to be related to increased nutrient input from terrestrial activities (Wismer et al. 2009).”