Recovery without resilience: persistent disturbance and long-term shifts in the structure of fish and coral communities at Tiahura Reef, Moorea

By Michael L. Berumen, M. Pratchett. Coral reefs, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “Accordingly, local abundance of butterflyfishes that feed predominantly on Acropora spp. has declined, whilst Pocillopora specialists and more generalist corallivores have proliferated (berumen & Pratchett 2006).”
Comparative Effects of Different Disturbances in Coral Reef Habitats in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, background): “However, relatively rapid increase in total coral cover may belie fundamental changes in coral composition [49] and thereby habitat structure.”
Thirty Years of Research on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (1986–2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities (2017, background): “In extreme cases, coral assemblages may never regain their initial structure, even where overall coral cover returns to pre-disturbance levels (Berumen and Pratchett 2006), owing to fundamental shifts in community dynamics.”
Coral mortality versus structural collapse as drivers of corallivorous butterflyfish decline (2009, background): “Previous studies have shown that recovery of fish species richness and abundance of some groups may track recovery of the benthos (Sano 2000; Halford et al. 2004), however for butterflyfish, if the composition of corals that recover is different to the pre-disturbance composition, the resultant asse”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “…such as thermal bleaching (Marshall and Baird 2000), storms (Madin and Connolly 2006), and crownof-thorns starfish (Baird et al. 2013), yet they are also fast-growing and in areas of sufficient larval supply can quickly dominate areas post-disturbance (e.g., Berumen and Pratchett 2006).”
Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs (2010, background): “Long-term monitoring and experimentation have documented rapid excursions from, and returns to, coral dominance (Done et al. 1991, Adjeroud et al. 2005, 2009, Berumen & Pratchett 2006).”
Archipelago-wide coral recovery patterns since 1998 in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean (2008, background): “Changes in coral have also been accompanied by changes in associated fish composition (Berumen & Pratchett 2006).”
Trade-offs associated with dietary specialization in corallivorous butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae: Chaetodon) (2008, background): “While competitive exclusion (Berumen and Pratchett 2006b) may play a role in prey selection, subtle partitioning of the convergent diets of coral-feeding butterflyfishes (Pratchett 2005) may be partly responsible for the ability of C. plebeius to perform equally well on different coral prey.”
Recent disturbances augment community shifts in coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, background): “This shift was caused and appears to be maintained, by the selective removal of Acropora corals during recurrent disturbances (Berumen and Pratchett 2006).”
Reef degradation and the loss of critical ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reef fishes (2014, background): “Moreover, changes in total coral cover may belie changes in coral composition, which can have equally important effects for reef fishes that have strong reliance on particular types of corals [23].”
Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities (2008, background): “Subtle shifts in a coral community can also favour some species over others, influencing the composition of coral-dependant fish communities (Berumen & Pratchett, 2006).”
Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “However, even where coral cover has returned, recovery of the fish communities may be incomplete if a different suite of coral species dominate the new assemblage (Berumen and Pratchett 2006).”