Title |
Global disparity in the resilience of coral reefs
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Published in |
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2012
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DOI | 10.1016/j.tree.2012.04.007 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
George Roff, Peter J. Mumby |
Abstract |
The great sensitivity of coral reefs to climate change has raised concern over their resilience. An emerging body of resilience theory stems largely from research carried out in a single biogeographic region; the Caribbean. Such geographic bias raises the question of transferability of concepts among regions. In this article, we identify factors that might predispose the Caribbean to its low resilience, including faster rates of macroalgal growth, higher rates of algal recruitment, basin-wide iron-enrichment of algal growth from aeolian dust, a lack of acroporid corals, lower herbivore biomass and missing groups of herbivores. Although mechanisms of resilience are likely to be ubiquitous, our analysis suggests that Indo-Pacific reefs would have to be heavily degraded to exhibit bistability or undergo coral-macroalgal phase shifts. |
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United States | 1 | 14% |
Australia | 1 | 14% |
Sweden | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 4 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 4 | 57% |
Members of the public | 2 | 29% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 13 | 2% |
Mexico | 6 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 5 | <1% |
Sweden | 3 | <1% |
Brazil | 3 | <1% |
Japan | 2 | <1% |
Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
France | 1 | <1% |
Other | 13 | 2% |
Unknown | 801 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 171 | 20% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 148 | 17% |
Researcher | 137 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 113 | 13% |
Other | 40 | 5% |
Other | 140 | 16% |
Unknown | 101 | 12% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 378 | 44% |
Environmental Science | 225 | 26% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 48 | 6% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 2% |
Unspecified | 13 | 2% |
Other | 49 | 6% |
Unknown | 122 | 14% |