Disturbance

Refining submarine groundwater discharge analysis through nonlinear quantile regression of geochemical time series.

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2024
Early post-settlement events, rather than settlement, drive recruitment and coral recovery at Moorea, French Polynesia.

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2024
Effects of year-long exposure to elevated pCO2 on the metabolism of back reef and fore reef communities.

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2024
Latitudinal variation in thermal performance of the common coral, Pocillopora spp.

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2024
On the use of rapid acute heat tolerance assays to resolve ecologically relevant differences among corals.

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2024
Modeling the effects of selectively fishing key functional groups of herbivores on coral resilience.

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2024
Removal of detritivore sea cucumbers from reefs increases coral disease.

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2024
Coral performance is comparable when transplanted to disparate reef sites despite divergent histories of reef decline and recovery.

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2024
Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics.

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2023
Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality.

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2023
Coral restoration for coastal resilience: Integrating ecology, hydrodynamics, and engineering at multiple scales.

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2023
Asynchrony in coral community structure contributes to reef-scale community stability.

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2023
Positive interactions between corals and damselfish increase coral resistance to temperature stress.

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2023
Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter are central to coral reef ecosystem function and resilience.

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2023
Using machine learning to achieve simultaneous, georeferenced surveys of fish and benthic communities on shallow reefs.

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2023
Reef habitats’ structure symbiotic microalgal assemblages in corals and contribute to differential heat stress responses.

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2023

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Early life stage bottleneck determines rates of coral recovery following severe disturbance; Data for Speare et al., 2024, Ecology

The data included in this data package were collected on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia, from 2011-2018 to evaluate drivers of different recovery rates of corals at two depths (10m and 17m). Data on juvenile coral densities, growth, and mortality, were collected from annual time series photoquadrats. Data from two experiments on coral settlement tiles were used to evaluate how exclusion of fishes influences the density of coral recruits, and the survival of coral recruits at 10 and 17m.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Quantifying 2019 coral bleaching; data for Kopecky et al., 2023 Remote Sensing

This data package contains a dataset generated using image AI-assisted image segmentation of live and dead corals within ortho-photomosaics of benthic reef habitat on the North shore fore reef of Moorea, French Polynesia. The orthophotomosaics were produced through a rigorous method of underwater photogrammetry that allowed for spatial and temporal co-registration of ortho-photomosaics of the same location over time (for full photogrammetric methods, see Nocerino et al. 2020: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12183036). Using the image segmentation software, TagLab (see Pavoni et al.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: 3D photogrammetry improves measurement of growth and biodiversity patterns in branching corals; data for Curtis 2023, Coral Reefs

These data and code were generated in support of the manuscript: Curtis JS, Galvan JW, Primo A, Osenberg CW, and AC Stier, Coral Reefs. We collected manual and photogrammetry-based measurements of coral size and volume to examine which method best described short-term coral growth and links between coral habitat and biodiversity of CAFI (coral-associated fishes and invertebrates).

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Asynchrony in coral community structure contributes to reef‑scale community stability, data for Srednick et al., Nature 2023

These data were generated in support of the manuscript: Srednick G, Davis K, and Edmunds P, Nature To evaluate whether spatial insurance effects are important on coral reefs, we explored variation over 2006–2019 in coral community structure and environmental conditions in Moorea, French Polynesia. We studied coral community structure at a single site with fringing, back reef, and fore reef habitats, and used this system to explore associations among community asynchrony, asynchrony of environmental conditions, and community stability.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Data for manuscript J.Exp.Bio 2020 Edmunds and Burgess

This dataset contains allometry measurements on corals in tanks conditioned to simulate varied carbon dioxide partial pressure to test how coral colony size modulates PCO2 and temperature sensitivity in a branching acroporid. Data for Figure 1 in a manuscript submitted by P. Edmunds and S. Burgess to J of Experimental Biology in 2020 titled 'Emergent properties of branching morphologies modulate the sensitivity of coral calcification to high PCO2' This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Coral bleaching with nitrogen and heat stress: 2016 data in support of Donovan et al. submitted to PNAS

During 2016, maximum water temperature in the lagoons of Moorea exceeded a threshold for heat stress for 70 straight days from early February through mid-April. In early May 2016, at the peak of accumulated heat stress, coral bleaching surveys were conducted to test the hypothesis that bleaching prevalence and severity were correlated with differences in heat stress and nutrient availability. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Data for figures in Doo, et al., Ocean acidification effects on in situ coral reef metabolism, Scientific Reports, 2019

These data result from a Free Ocean CO2 Enrichment (FOCE). Data include net community calcification (NCC), net community production (NCP), and net ecosystem calcification (NEC) for the figures in Doo, Edmunds and Cparpenter, Ocean acidification effects on in situ coral reef metabolism, Scientific Reports, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48407-7. Data for Figure 2A describe the 24-h NCC collected in the in situ SCoRe-FOCE. Data for Figures 2B and 2C describe the offset of NCC of the high CO2 treatment from ambient collected in the in situ SCoRe-FOCE.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Community structure outdoor flume data in support of Edmunds 2019 Marine Biology

This dataset contains data in support of Edmunds, P.J., S.S. Doo, R.C. Carpenter, 'Changes in coral reef community structure in response to year-long incubations under contrasting pCO2 regimes', Marine Biology, 2019, doi:10.1007/s00227-019-3540-2. Here, the effects of ocean acidification (OA) on back reef communities from Mo'orea, French Polynesia (17.492S, 149.826W), were tested from 12 November 2015 to 16 November 2016 in outdoor flumes maintained at various mean pCO2 levels.

MCR LTER: Reef Topography data from Duvall et al., JGR Oceans 2019

This archive contains natural coral reef topography data from the southeast coast of Mo’orea, French Polynesia and idealized reef topography generated with a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) algorithm. These data were used to understand and compare different metrics for quantifying coral reef roughness. These data relate to this publication: Duvall, M. S., J. L. Hench, and J. H. Rosman, in press, Collapsing complexity: metrics to quantify multi-scale properties of reef topography.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Coral size, temperature and turbulence data in support of Edmunds and Burgess MarBio 2017

In this study, we tested the effects of colony size and seawater turbulence on the response of the common Indo-Pacific branching coral, Pocillopora verrucosa, to different seawater temperatures. Using whole-colony calcification as a response variable, 12 tanks (each 150 l) were used in two trials lasting 14 days to contrast the effects of seawater turbulence (two levels) and temperature (25.5°C vs 29.5°C) on colonies varying in size from ~4 to 13-cm diameter.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Recruitment during El Niño, Edmunds PLOS1 2017

The negative implications of the thermal sensitivity of reef corals became clear with coral bleaching throughout the Caribbean in the 1980’s, and later globally, with the severe El Niño of 1998 and extensive seawater warming in 2005. These events have substantially contributed to declines in coral cover, and therefore the El Niño of 2016 raised concerns over the implications for coral reefs; on the Great Barrier Reef these concerns have been realized.

Taiwan Coral Reef: Seawater pH, Temperature and Depth Time Series from Bottom-mounted Sensors on the Fringing Reef in Nanwan Bay, May-July 2012

Bottom-mounted instrumentation (SeaFET, Seabird conductivity/temperature sensor, Hobo water level data loggers) sampled for 7 weeks on the Hobihu fringing reef in Nanwan Bay, Taiwan. Sampling began in May 2012. The instruments were secured to anchored fencing stakes at 4 meters depth and 0.6 meters above the sandy bottom. The SeaFET recorded voltages from a thermistor and pH electrodes at a 10-minute sampling interval.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Seawater pH, Temperature and Depth Time Series from Bottom-mounted Sensors on the Fringing Reef, January-March 2012

Bottom-mounted instrumentation (SeaFET, Seabird thermisters, Hobo water level data loggers) sampled for 8 weeks on the fringing reef of Moorea Island, French Polynesia at site LTER Fringe 1. Sampling began in January 2012. The instruments were secured to a cement piling at 3.3 meters depth and 0.7 meters above the sandy bottom. The SeaFET recorded voltages from a thermistor and pH electrodes at a 10-minute sampling interval.

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