ArticleScience advances2023
Seabirds boost coral reef resilience.
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- Contrasting cryptofaunal responses to seabird nutrient inputs illuminate coral reef productivity pathways.Ecology · 2026Article
- Carbonate framework and sediment production across island-fringing coral reef habitats and a natural nutrient gradient.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Trait-based approaches to restoration ecology: Synthesizing insights from diverse systems.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Review
- Predators can facilitate herbivory in nutrient-limited marine ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evaluating stress antagonists for enhanced coral recovery after natural heat exposure.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Changes in host gene expression patterns underpin responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to nutrient stress.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Supporting resilience-based coral reef management using broadscale threshold approaches.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Nutrient connectivity via seabirds enhances dynamic measures of coral reef ecosystem function.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Benthic communities on restored coral reefs confer equivalent aesthetic value to healthy reefs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Seabird-derived nutrients influence feeding pathways and body size in cryptobenthic reef fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Seabird nutrients increase coral calcification rates and boost reef carbonate production.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Atolls are globally important sites for tropical seabirds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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Global climate change threatens tropical coral reefs, yet local management can influence resilience. While increasing anthropogenic nutrients reduce coral resistance and recovery, it is unknown how the loss, or restoration, of natural nutrient flows affects reef recovery. Here, we test how natural seabird-derived nutrient subsidies, which are threatened by invasive rats, influence the mechanisms and patterns of reef recovery following an extreme marine heatwave using multiyear field experiments, repeated surveys, and Bayesian modeling. Corals transplanted from rat to seabird islands quickly assimilated seabird-derived nutrients, fully acclimating to new nutrient conditions within 3 years. Increased seabird-derived nutrients, in turn, caused a doubling of coral growth rates both within individuals and across entire reefs. Seabirds were also associated with faster recovery time of
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