Coral bleaching, reef fish community phase shifts and the resilience of coral reefs

By D. Bellwood, A. Hoey, JL Ackerman, M. Depczynski. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages (2016, background): “…the restoration of reef fish communities that feature high superficial functional redundancy through November 2016 v Volume 7(11) v Article e0155716 v www.esajournals.org the recovery of live coral habitat will take time, even in short- lived species with high turnover (Bellwood et al. 2006).”
Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation. (2010, methodology): “Additionally, we used the index proposed by Bellwood et al. (2006b) to measure the functional specialization of a community (i.e., the average specialization of its species).”
Maintenance of fish diversity on disturbed coral reefs (2009, background): “Species richness is, however, a simplistic measure of natural communities, and similarity in fish diversity on reefs with fundamentally different habitat structure may belie major changes in species composition of fish assemblages (Bellwood et al. 2006b).”
Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “A regime shift on coral reefs would almost certainly cause a loss of fish diversity, especially among coraldependent species, and a shift towards communities containing fewer specialist and more generalist species (Munday 2004; Bellwood et al. 2006; Wilson et al. 2006).”
Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “…have documented concomitant changes in the abundance, diversity or composition of fishes (shibuno et al. 1999, booth & beretta 2002, Mcclanahan et al. 2002a, spalding & Jarvis 2002, Munday 2004a, sano 2004, bellwood et al. 2006a, Garpe et al. 2006, Graham et al. 2006, Pratchett et al. 2006).”
Relationship between symbiont density and photosynthetic carbon acquisition in the temperate coral Cladocora caespitosa (2010, background): “The phenomenon of coral bleaching is recognized as one of the key threats to the persistence of coral reefs (e.g., Bellwood et al. 2006).”
Multiple disturbances and the global degradation of coral reefs: are reef fishes at risk or resilient? (2006, background): “Moreover, the full extent of species loss after coral decline is rarely measured, as very small and cryptic fishes are often overlooked in community studies and monitoring programs, yet they may become locally extinct following coral loss (Munday, 2004; Bellwood et al., 2006).”
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook (2008, background): “In addition, coral associated fishes that require coral structure for shelter, reproduction or larval settlement sites have shown marked declines following habitat loss (Bellwood et al., 2006).”
Diversity and functional importance of coral‐feeding fishes on tropical coral reefs (2008, background): “Hence, a higher consumer-to-resource ratio will result in increased feeding effort directed towards the remaining colonies (Glynn 1990, 1996; Cros and McClanahan 2003; Bellwood et al. 2006), resulting in a rapid depletion of food resources.”
Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality (2009, background): “%) of key species that have been shown to play essential roles in herbivory and predation on sea urchins (e.g. Echinometra mathaei , McClanahan 1995) and crown-of-thorns starfish ( Acanthaster planci ) (Power et al. 1996; Bellwood et al. 2003, 2006; Fox & Bellwood 2008).”
CoRAl-ASSoCIATED INvERTEbRATES: DIvERSITy, EColoGICAl IMPoRTANCE AND vulNERAbIlITy To DISTuRbANCE (2011, background): “, after mass bleaching) whereby feeding is concentrated on the few remaining corals and may represent the ultimate cause of coral mortality (bellwood et al. 2006).”
Variation in the structure of epifaunal invertebrate assemblages among coral hosts (2010, background): “One study documented no effect of coral decline on abundance and diversity, but noted a marked shift in community composition from one with a high abundance of specialized coral associates to one with a high abundance of species less habitat specific ( Bellwood et al. 2006 ).”
Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “…in coral composition are characterised by the loss of structurally complex corals, reef fish assemblages may become less functionally diverse and dominated by habitat generalists that utilize a range of habitat types at the expense of habitat specialists (Bellwood et al. 2006; Wilson et al. 2008).”
Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef (2008, methodology): “However, the results of Bellwood et al. (2006) suggest that maintenance of fish diversity does not necessarily confer resilience to fish communities, nor does it reflect the general ecosystem status.”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, background): “It is possible however, that some fishes may benefit from changes in habitat-structure and disappearance of coral-dependent fishes, such that fish diversity may be unchanged [63,64].”