The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs

K Wolfe, TM Kenyon, PJ Mumby - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and
dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases today, the reduction in habitat complexity …

Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: the potential for practical monitoring applications

JA Strong, E Andonegi, KC Bizsel, R Danovaro… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand for environmental assessments of the marine environment to
include ecosystem function. However, existing schemes are predominantly based on …

Trophic cascades in benthic marine ecosystems: lessons for fisheries and protected-area management

JK Pinnegar, NVC Polunin, P Francour… - Environmental …, 2000 - cambridge.org
An important principle of environmental science is that changes in single components of
systems are likely to have consequences elsewhere in the same systems. In the sea, food …

A general approach to length-weight relationships for New Caledonian lagoon fishes

M Kulbicki, N Guillemot, M Amand - Cybium, 2005 - documentation.ird.fr
Most studies involving Pacific reef fishes use underwater visual censusing techniques to
estimate their biomass and stock. This requires to know the length-weight relationships of all …

Pelagic subsidies underpin fish productivity on a degraded coral reef

RA Morais, DR Bellwood - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Coral reefs harbor high productivity in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. This exceptional
productivity can be explained by high recycling rates [1, 2], deep-water nutrient enrichment …

Coral and macroalgal exudates vary in neutral sugar composition and differentially enrich reef bacterioplankton lineages

CE Nelson, SJ Goldberg, L Wegley Kelly… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Increasing algal cover on tropical reefs worldwide may be maintained through feedbacks
whereby algae outcompete coral by altering microbial activity. We hypothesized that algae …

Effects of coral reef benthic primary producers on dissolved organic carbon and microbial activity

AF Haas, CE Nelson, L Wegley Kelly, CA Carlson… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Benthic primary producers in marine ecosystems may significantly alter biogeochemical
cycling and microbial processes in their surrounding environment. To examine these …

Detritus in the epilithic algal matrix and its use by coral reef fishes

SK Wilson, DR Bellwood, JH Choat… - … and marine biology, 2003 - books.google.com
The epilithic algal matrix (EAM) is a ubiquitous component of coral reefs and is the primary
grazing surface for many reef fishes. Detritus accounts for at least 10% to 78% of all the …

No complexity–stability relationship in empirical ecosystems

C Jacquet, C Moritz, L Morissette, P Legagneux… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for stability and persistence of ecosystems is
one of the greatest challenges in ecology. Robert May showed that, contrary to intuition …

A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean

V Christensen, M Coll, C Piroddi, J Steenbeek… - … ecology progress series, 2014 - int-res.com
We performed a global assessment of how fish biomass has changed over the last 100 yr,
applying a previously developed methodology using ecological modeling. Our assessment …