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| Carlot, Jérémy; Kayal, Mohsen; Lenihan, Hunter S.; Brandl, Simon J.; Casey, Jordan M.; Adjeroud, Mehdi; Cardini, Ulisse; Merciere, Alexandre; Espiau, Benoit; Barneche, Diego R.; Rovere, Alessio; Hédouin, Laetitia; Parravicini, Valeriano. |
| Sea‐level rise is predicted to cause major damage to tropical coastlines. While coral reefs can act as natural barriers for ocean waves, their protection hinges on the ability of scleractinian corals to produce enough calcium carbonate (CaCO3) to keep up with rising sea levels. As a consequence of intensifying disturbances, coral communities are changing rapidly, potentially reducing community‐level CaCO3 production. By combining colony‐level physiology and long‐term monitoring data, we show that reefs recovering from major disturbances can produce 40% more CaCO3 than currently estimated due to the disproportionate contribution of juvenile corals. However, the buffering effect of highly productive juvenile corals is compromised by recruitment failures,... |
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| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00685/79743/82514.pdf |
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| Bender, Mariana G.; Leprieur, Fabien; Mouillot, David; Kulbicki, Michel; Parravicini, Valeriano; Pie, Marcio R.; Barneche, Diego R.; Oliveira-santos, Luiz Gustavo R.; Floeter, Sergio R.. |
| Taxonomic nestedness, the degree to which the taxonomic composition of species-poor assemblages represents a subset of richer sites, commonly occurs in habitat fragments and islands differing in size and isolation from a source pool. However, species are not ecologically equivalent and the extent to which nestedness is observed in terms of functional trait composition of assemblages still remains poorly known. Here, using an extensive database on the functional traits and the distributions of 6316 tropical reef fish species across 169 sites, we assessed the levels of taxonomical vs functional nestedness of reef fish assemblages at the global scale. Functional nestedness was considerably more common than taxonomic nestedness, and generally associated with... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00625/73725/74695.pdf |
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