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| Title |
Ocean acidification reduces coral recruitment by disrupting intimate larval‐algal settlement interactions
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| Published in |
Ecology Letters, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01743.x |
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| Authors |
Christopher Doropoulos, Selina Ward, Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Peter J Mumby |
| Abstract |
Ecology Letters (2012) ABSTRACT: Successful recruitment in shallow reef ecosystems often involves specific cues that connect planktonic invertebrate larvae with particular crustose coralline algae (CCA) during settlement. While ocean acidification (OA) can reduce larval settlement and the abundance of CCA, the impact of OA on the interactions between planktonic larvae and their preferred settlement substrate are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that CO(2) concentrations (800 and 1300 μatm) predicted to occur by the end of this century significantly reduce coral (Acropora millepora) settlement and CCA cover by ≥ 45%. The CCA important for inducing coral settlement (Titanoderma spp., Hydrolithon spp.) were the most deleteriously affected by OA. Surprisingly, the only preferred settlement substrate (Titanoderma) in the experimental controls was avoided by coral larvae as pCO(2) increased, and other substrata selected. Our results suggest OA may reduce coral population recovery by reducing coral settlement rates, disrupting larval settlement behaviour, and reducing the availability of the most desirable coralline algal species for successful coral recruitment. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Fiji | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 492 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| Mexico | 3 | <1% |
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 1% |
| Unknown | 469 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 99 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 88 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 81 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 56 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 25 | 5% |
| Other | 67 | 14% |
| Unknown | 76 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 230 | 47% |
| Environmental Science | 114 | 23% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 29 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 18 | 4% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 14 | 3% |
| Unknown | 82 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2016.
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#1,792,767
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Outputs from Ecology Letters
#1,020
of 3,116 outputs
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#12,553
of 254,242 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#5
of 41 outputs
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