ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Two decades of carbonate budget change on shifted coral reef assemblages: are these reefs being locked into low net budget states?
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- Low net carbonate accretion characterizes Florida's coral reef.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
The ecology of coral reefs is rapidly shifting from historical baselines. One key-question is whether under these new, less favourable ecological conditions, coral reefs will be able to sustain key geo-ecological processes such as the capacity to accumulate carbonate structure. Here, we use data from 34 Caribbean reef sites to examine how the carbonate production, net erosion and net carbonate budgets, as well as the organisms underlying these processes, have changed over the past 15 years in the absence of further severe acute disturbances. We find that despite fundamental benthic ecological changes, these ecologically shifted coral assemblages have exhibited a modest but significant increase in their net carbonate budgets over the past 15 years. However, contrary to expectations this trend was driven by a decrease in erosion pressure, largely resulting from changes in the abundance and size-frequency distribution of parrotfishes, and not by an increase in rates of coral carbonate production. Although in the short term, the carbonate budgets seem to have benefitted marginally from reduced parrotfish erosion, the absence of these key substrate grazers, particularly of larger individuals, is unlikely to be conducive to reef recovery and will thus probably lock these reefs into low budget states.
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