ArticleNature ecology & evolution2019
Biodiversity enhances coral growth, tissue survivorship and suppression of macroalgae.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Biodiversity has a positive but saturating effect on imperiled coral reefs.Science advances · 2021Article
- Temperature stress and disease drives the extirpation of the threatened pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus, in southeast Florida.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Extreme seascape drives local recruitment and genetic divergence in brooding and spawning corals in remote north-west Australia.Evolutionary applications · 2020Article
- Caribbean reefs of the Anthropocene: Variance in ecosystem metrics indicates bright spots on coral depauperate reefs.Global change biology · 2020Article
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- Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics.eLife · 2020Article
- Variable effects of local management on coral defenses against a thermally regulated bleaching pathogen.Science advances · 2019Article
- Consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats on a Caribbean coral reef.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Clonal diversity impacts coral cover inEcology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs are declining dramatically and losing species richness, but the impact of declining biodiversity on coral well-being remains inadequately understood. Here, we demonstrate that lower coral species richness alone can suppress the growth and survivorship of multiple species of corals (Porites cylindrica, Pocillopora damicornis and Acropora millepora) under field conditions on a degraded, macroalgae-dominated reef. Our findings highlight the positive role of biodiversity in the function of coral reefs, and suggest that the loss of coral species richness may trigger negative feedback that causes further ecosystem decline.
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