Inorganic Nutrients

Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects.

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In Press
Nutrient and sediment loading affect multiple facets of coral functionality in a tropical branching coral.

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2020
Positive feedbacks in social-ecological systems can maintain coral dominance.

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2025
Submarine groundwater discharge alters benthic community composition and functional diversity on coral reefs.

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2025
The effect of bottom-up and top-down forces on the abundance, feedbacks and resilience of macroalgae on coral reefs.

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2025
Symbioses under stress: Dynamics of microbial symbiont communities in the Anthropocene.

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2022
Spatiotemporal dynamics of carbonate chemistry and coral metabolism in a tropical coral reef system.

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2022
Too much of a good thing? The influence of benthic community and chronic nutrient enrichment on reef microbial assemblages.

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2021
The community composition and ammonium contributions of coral exosymbionts in Moorea, French Polynesia.

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2020
Differential effects of nutrients and consumer pressure on sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.).

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2025
Interactions between consumer access and nutrient enrichment have divergent impacts on two common Pacific corals.

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2024
Fish feces reveal diverse nutrient sources for coral reefs.

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2023
Programmable autonomous water samplers (PAWS): An inexpensive, adaptable, and robust submersible system for time-integrated water sampling in freshwater and marine ecosystems.

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2023

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Distinguishing the molecular diversity, nutrient content, and energetic potential of exometabolomes produced by macroalgae and reef-building corals; data for Kelly et al., 2022 PNAS

Metabolites exuded by primary producers comprise a significant fraction of marine dissolved organic matter, a poorly characterized, heterogenous mixture that dictates microbial metabolism and biogeochemical cycling. We present a foundational untargeted molecular analysis of exudates released by coral reef primary producers using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry to examine compounds produced by two coral species and three types of algae (macroalgae, turfing microalgae, and crustose coralline algae [CCA]) from Mo’orea, French Polynesia.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Landscape-scale patterns of nutrient enrichment in a coral reef ecosystem: implications for coral to algae phase shifts, Adam et al., Ecol. Appl.

These data and analyses code were generated in support of the manuscript: Adam TC, Burkepile DE, Holbrook SJ, Carpenter RC, Claudet J, Loiseau C, Thiault L, Brooks, AJ, Washburn L, and RJ Schmitt, Ecological Applications We investigated the potential role of anthropogenic nutrient loading in driving recent coral-to-macroalgae phase shifts on reefs in the lagoons surrounding Moorea, French Polynesia.

MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Water Column: Nearshore Water Profiles, CTD, Primary Production, and Chemistry, from 2005 to 2018

This data package contains water chemistry measurements taken 2 to 4 times per year at 6 stations on the north shore of Moorea, French Polynesia: Forereef, Lagoon, Fringing Reef, Cooks Bay, Cooks Bay Stream Mouth, and Offshore (5 km due north). Measurements include standard CTD parameters, nutrients, chlorophyll, phaeopigments, particulate organic carbon and nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, water column primary production, and abundance of bacteria. Sampling began in August, 2005. All water samples were collected with Niskin Bottles.
A space-time mosaic of seawater carbonate chemistry conditions in the northshore Moorea coral reef system.

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2022
Complex interactions with nutrients and sediment alter the effects of predation on a reef-building coral.

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2021
A view from both ends: shifts in herbivore assemblages impact top-down and bottom-up processes on coral reefs.

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2021
Nutrient enrichment predominantly affects low diversity microbiomes in a marine trophic symbiosis between algal farming fish and corals.

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2021
Juvenile corals underpin coral reef carbonate production after disturbance.

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2021
Chronic low-level nutrient enrichment benefits coral thermal performance in a fore reef habitat.

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2021
Phylogenetic conservatism drives nutrient dynamics of coral reef fishes.

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2021
Nitrate enrichment has lineage specific effects on Pocillopora acuta adults, but no transgenerational effects in planulae.

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2022
Spatial co-variation in nutrient enrichment and fishing of herbivores in an oceanic coral reef ecosystem.

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2022
Fertilization by coral-dwelling fish promotes coral growth but can exacerbate bleaching response.

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2022
Evidence of freshened groundwater below a tropical fringing reef.

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2020
Nitrogen identity drives differential impacts of nutrients on coral bleaching and mortality.

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2020
Different nitrogen sources speed recovery from corallivory and uniquely alter the microbiome of a reef-building coral.

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2019

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