Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs

By Nancy Knowlton, J. Jackson. PLoS Biology, 2008

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The striking health of remote coral reefs provides clear evidence that protection from local overfishing and pollution can help mitigate the impacts of global warming.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (2009, background): “2004), and dramatic declines in corals and fishes have been well documented (Gardner et al. 2003; Pandolfi et al. 2003; Bruno and Selig 2007; Knowlton and Jackson 2008).”
Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern” (2009, background): “Increases in sea surface temperature of 1 °C to 3 °C are projected to result in more frequent coral bleaching events and widespread mortality unless there is substantial thermal adaptation or acclimatization by corals (10, 11).”
Herbivory versus corallivory: are parrotfish good or bad for Caribbean coral reefs? (2009, background): “…of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PS, UK e-mail: p.j.mumby@ex.ac.uk and the ecosystem services they provide (Steneck 1988; Hughes 1994; Bellwood et al. 2004; Newman et al. 2006; Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2007; Knowlton and Jackson 2008; Mumby and Steneck 2008; Nystrom et al. 2008).”
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly changing world (2014, background): “Consistent with the concept of “shifting baselines” [92] the “norm” against which most people unconsciously compare observed climatic deviations derives from shortterm, personal experience.”
Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. (2012, background): “Viewed more positively, protection from local stressors can make reefs more resilient in the face of global change (Knowlton & Jackson 2008).”
Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems (2017, background): “In addition to the hazards emerging from global change, localized reef-scale anthropogenic impact can further influence the ecological resilience of corals and other reef organisms to global stressors (Knowlton and Jackson 2008).”
Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences (2013, background): “The system under study is subject to an experimental intervention simulating varying levels of eutrophication and overfishing 40 .”
Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages (2016, background): “Coral reef ecosystems are a focal system for the study of functional redundancy due to their high diversity and vulnerability to human disturbances (Knowlton and Jackson 2008).”
Coping with the Lionfish Invasion: Can Targeted Removals Yield Beneficial Effects? (2012, background): “In many cases, negative outcomes from invasions impinge heavily on threatened and endangered species or exacerbate problems caused by climate change, pollution, overfishing, and other anthropogenic stresses (Knowlton and Jackson, 2008; Schofield, 2010).”
Mediterranean warming triggers seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) shoot mortality (2009, background): “…stresses assume that these interact in a synergistic manner (e.g. Jackson, 2008), implying that local stresses, such as excess nutrient inputs, weaken the resistance of marine ecosystems to climate change (e.g. Duarte, 2002; Hansen et al., 2003; Knowlton & Jackson, 2008; Scavia et al., 2002).”