Thresholds and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs

By Peter J. Mumby, Alan Hastings, H. J. Edwards. Nature, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management (2015, background): “One of the key feedbacks that likely reinforces an algae-dominated state is the dilution of grazing intensity as corals decline and create large amounts of space for the establishment of benthic algae (Williams et al. 2001, Paddack et al. 2006, Mumby et al. 2007).”
Identifying multiple coral reef regimes and their drivers across the Hawaiian archipelago (2015, background): “This raises the question whether turf-dominated reefs constitute a stable regime or an unstable transitional state that is moving towards a coral or macroalgal attractor [17].”
Conservation action in a changing climate (2008, positive): “…ecological resilience and minimize climate change impacts through increasing grazing capacity and coral recovery trajectories (Worm et al. 2006; Mumby et al. 2007), will only work socially and ecologically in a limited region where high adaptive capacity and low environmental susceptibility…”
Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific (2014, background): “…as apex predators and herbivores, is an important indicator of the health and resilience of coral reef ecosystems (Friedlander and DeMartini 2002, Mumby et al. 2007, 2013), but as exploitation of these assemblage components reaches critical thresholds, the overall health of reefs and the…”
Impacts of climate change on marine organisms and ecosystems. (2009, background): “Algal domination may persist as an ‘alternative stable state’ if rates of algal grazing are low: in the Caribbean, death from disease of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum, an important grazer, had major consequences for entire coral reef ecosystems because the interaction between grazing pressure an”
Coral–macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, background): “However, since we did not test for altered ecological feedback mechanisms (Scheffer et al. 2001; Mumby et al. 2007) that would sustain macroalgal dominance in the longer term, we consider the observed changes as a phase shift rather than a regime shift (see Nyström et al.”
Mangrove use by the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (2010, background): “…recruitment (Albins & Hixon 2008), it is highly likely that their presence in mangrove habitat poses an immediate threat to economically and ecologically important fish families (e.g. Scaridae, Serranidae) utilizing mangrove systems as nursery habitat (Mumby et al. 2004, 2007, Koenig et al. 2007).”
Experiment mimics fishing on parrotfish: insights on coral reef recovery and alternative attractors (2014, methodology): “Modeling PD effects to ecosystem scale resilience To investigate the wider ecosystem-level impacts of the PD manipulation, we incorporated the ob - served effects of the PDs on parrotfish grazing into an existing model of a Caribbean reef system (Mumby et al. 2007).”
Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality (2009, background): “The rationale for this is twofold: (i) by minimizing all direct anthropogenic effects, NTAs maximize the capacity for coral reef ecosystems to withstand, and recover from periodic bleaching events; (ii) NTAs also limit harvesting of key functional groups (specifically herbivorous fishes) that direct”
Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs (2008, background): “…changes of key herbivores may also cause major community and ecosystem changes, as seen on Jamaican reefs after the decline of herbivorous fish and the sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, and the subsequent dominance of macroalgae over coral (Lessios, 1995; Hughes & Connell, 1999; Mumby et al., 2007).”
Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century (2016, background): “, corals (38)], those species that display little seasonal variability in abundance [e.”