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ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology2026

Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals.

Bryan Wilson, Peter J Edmunds

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Article in Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bryan WilsonJohn Krebs Field Station, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Wytham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9000-2920
Peter J EdmundsDepartment of Biology, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9039-9347

Funding

824246Darwin Plus LocalDivision of Ocean SciencesFondation BertarelliOCE 22-24354 and 20-19992Percy Sladen Memorial Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many reef-building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3-dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent challenges therein of ecological surveys with scuba. To meet the demands of coral conservation biology in the 21st century, we suggest that contemporary studies of coral communities will require enhanced capacity to identify species and a species-specific focus on corals occurring at low abundances, which traditional ecological approaches to quantifying populations of benthic marine organisms have a limited capacity to address. Now is the time to revise scientific approaches to respond to the challenges posed by the need to understand and protect rare tropical corals.

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AnthozoaBiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesExtinction, BiologicalAnimalsCoral ReefsTropical ClimateAcropora cervicornisAcropora palmatacorales formadores de arrecifesCtenella chagiusDendrogyra cylindrusrarezararityreef‐building corals稀有性造礁石珊瑚

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PMID41454911
PMCPMC12856799

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