Influence of upwelling on coral reef benthic communities: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 290(1995)

Published: March 22, 2023

Highly competitive coral reef benthic communities are acutely sensitive to changes in environmental parameters such as temperature and nutrient concentrations. Physical oceanographic processes that induce upwelling therefore act drivers of community structure on tropical reefs. How impacts communities, however, is not fully understood; may provide a natural buffer against climate could potentially enhance the efficacy spatial management conservation efforts. This study employed systematic review assess existing literature linking with structure, meta-analysis quantify impact percentage cover groups. We show has context-dependant effects hard fleshy macroalgae, effect size direction varying depth, region remoteness. Fleshy macroalgae were found increase by 110% inhabited reefs yet decrease 56% around one well-studied remote island response upwelling. Hard was significantly impacted but increased 150% when direct local human pressures absent. By synthesizing evidence, this facilitates adaptive nuanced which considers influence assemblages.

Language: Английский

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Evidence for managing herbivores for reef resilience

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 290(2012)

Published: Dec. 6, 2023

Herbivore management is an important tool for resilience-based approaches to coral reef conservation, and evidence-based science needed enact successful management. We synthesized data from multiple monitoring programs in Hawai‘i measure herbivore biomass benthic condition over a 10-year period preceding any major bleaching. analysed 20 242 transects alongside on 27 biophysical human drivers found was highly variable throughout Hawai‘i, with high values remote locations the lowest near population centres. Both explained variation biomass, among both fishing land-based pollution had negative effects biomass. also evidence that functional group strongly linked condition, sensitive changes associated fishing. show when below 80% of potential predicted decline. range actions, including area-specific fisheries regulations gear restrictions, can increase parrotfish Together, these results provide lines support managing herbivores as effective strategy maintaining or bolstering resilience changing climate.

Language: Английский

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Derivation of copper water quality criteria in the Bohai Sea of China considering the effects of multiple environmental factors on copper toxicity

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 308, P. 119666 - 119666

Published: June 21, 2022

Language: Английский

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Individual and combined effects of herbicide prometryn and nitrate enrichment at environmentally relevant concentrations on photosynthesis, oxidative stress, and endosymbiont community diversity of coral Acropora hyacinthus

Chemosphere, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 339, P. 139729 - 139729

Published: Aug. 3, 2023

Language: Английский

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Derivation of copper water quality criteria in Bohai Bay for the protection of local aquatic life and the ecological risk assessment

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 190, P. 114863 - 114863

Published: March 27, 2023

Language: Английский

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