Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity

Climate Change, Coral Loss, and the Curious Case of the Parrotfish Paradigm: Why Don't Marine Protected Areas Improve Reef Resilience?

(2019) John F. Bruno et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Tropical fish diversity enhances coral reef functioning across multiple scales

(2019) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Science Advances

Marine protected areas enhance coral reef functioning by promoting fish biodiversity

(2019) Zachary M. Topor et al.   Conservation Letters

Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral-reef ecosystem functioning

(2019) Simon J. Brandl et al.   SCIENCE

The hidden half: ecology and evolution of cryptobenthic fishes on coral reefs

(2018) Simon J. Brandl et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biogeographical disparity in the functional diversity and redundancy of corals

(2018) Mike McWilliam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

(2018) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Neighbor Diversity Regulates the Productivity of Coral Assemblages

(2018) Mike McWilliam et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Biodiversity enhances coral growth, tissue survivorship and suppression of macroalgae

(2018) Cody S. Clements et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

(2017) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   NATURE

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

On site DNA barcoding by nanopore sequencing

(2017) Michele Menegon et al.   PLoS One

Does Biodiversity–Ecosystem Function Literature Neglect Tropical Ecosystems?

(2017) David A. Clarke et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological limitations to the resilience of coral reefs

(2016) Camilo Mora et al.   CORAL REEFS

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

(2016) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Trait-Based Approach to Advance Coral Reef Science

(2016) Joshua S. Madin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fishing down nutrients on coral reefs

(2016) Jacob E. Allgeier et al.   Nature Communications

Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages

(2016) Simon J. Brandl et al.   Ecosphere

Biogeochemical implications of biodiversity and community structure across multiple coastal ecosystems

(2015) Jacob E. Allgeier et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle-mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment

(2015) Hannah M. Griffiths et al.   ECOLOGY

Herbivore cross-scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience

(2015) Kirsty L. Nash et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

(2015) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Tracing carbon flow through coral reef food webs using a compound-specific stable isotope approach

(2015) Kelton W. McMahon et al.   OECOLOGIA

Context-Dependent Diversity-Effects of Seaweed Consumption on Coral Reefs in Kenya

(2015) Austin T. Humphries et al.   PLoS One

High vulnerability of ecosystem function and services to diversity loss in Caribbean coral reefs

(2014) Fiorenza Micheli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Experimental evaluation of diversity–productivity relationships in a coral reef fish assemblage

(2014) Vanessa Messmer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what's known and what's next?

(2014) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   OIKOS

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments

(2014) Camilo Mora et al.   Scientific Reports

Metabolic diversity and niche structure in sponges from the Miskito Cays, Honduras

(2014) Christopher J. Freeman et al.   PeerJ

Systematic global assessment of reef fish communities by the Reef Life Survey program

(2014) Graham J Edgar et al.   Scientific Data

Sharing the slope: depth partitioning of agariciid corals and associated Symbiodinium across shallow and mesophotic habitats (2-60 m) on a Caribbean reef

(2013) Pim Bongaerts et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function

(2013) Douglas B. Rasher et al.   ECOLOGY

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents

(2013) Matthieu Leray et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Individual-based analyses reveal limited functional overlap in a coral reef fish community

(2013) Simon J. Brandl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems

(2012) N. A. J. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

Evaluating life-history strategies of reef corals from species traits

(2012) Emily S. Darling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Threatened Reef Corals of the World

(2012) Danwei Huang   PLoS One

Global disparity in the resilience of coral reefs

(2012) George Roff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Latitudinal variation in macroalgal consumption by fishes on the Great Barrier Reef

(2011) S Bennett et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs

(2011) D. R. Bellwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Limited Functional Redundancy in a High Diversity System: Single Species Dominates Key Ecological Process on Coral Reefs

(2009) Andrew S. Hoey et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Functionally diverse reef-fish communities ameliorate coral disease

(2009) L. J. Raymundo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity

(2009) L. Alvarez-Filip et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Herbivore species richness and feeding complementarity affect community structure and function on a coral reef

(2008) D. E. Burkepile et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Caribbean Reef Development Was Independent of Coral Diversity over 28 Million Years

(2008) K. G. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE