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Extrinsic control of species replacement on a Holocene reef in Belize: the role of coral disease (1998)

Aronson, R. B. ; Precht, W. F. ; Macintyre, I. G.

Springer

Coral reefs 17 (1998), S. 223-230

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ISSN: 1432-0975

Schlagwort(e): Key wordsAcropora ; Carbonate Sedimentology ; Community structure ; Coral reef ; Disease ; Succession

Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Thema: Biologie , Geologie und Paläontologie

Notizen: Abstract Well-preserved, Holocene coral reefs provide the opportunity to discriminate between models of intrinsically driven succession and extrinsically driven species replacement, especially when paleontological patterns can be combined with ecological observations of the underlying mechanisms. Rhomboid shoals in the central shelf lagoon of the Belizean Barrier Reef experienced a recent and dramatic change in community composition. Agaricia tenuifolia replaced Acropora cervicornis as the dominant coral species at 3–15 m depth along the flanks of the reefs. We tested the hypothesis that shallowing upward caused this shift in dominance. A core extracted from 0.5 m water depth on one of the shoals, Channel Cay, revealed a shallowing-upward shift in dominance from Acropora to Porites divaricata. This successional sequence was quite different from the Acropora-to-Agaricia transition observed in four cores from 6–11 m water depth. Ecological observations showed that Agaricia became the dominant at ≥3 m depth after Acropora populations were decimated by a regional outbreak of white-band disease. The Acropora-to-Agaricia transition was clearly a case of extrinsically driven species replacement rather than an intrinsically driven, successional, shallowing-upward sequence.

Materialart: Digitale Medien

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003380050122

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