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Best‐practice forestry management delivers diminishing returns for coral reefs with increased land‐clearing

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What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

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

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What matters to whom and why? Understanding the importance of coastal ecosystem services in developing coastal communities

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Algae sediment dynamics are mediated by herbivorous fishes on a nearshore coral reef

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Applying a ridge-to-reef framework to support watershed, water quality, and community-based fisheries management in American Samoa

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

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Sediment associated with algal turfs inhibits the settlement of two endangered coral species

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Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

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A meta‐analysis reveals global patterns of sediment effects on marine biodiversity

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Synchronous biological feedbacks in parrotfishes associated with pantropical coral bleaching

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Algal turf sediments on coral reefs: what's known and what's next

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Evaluation of coral reef management effectiveness using conventional versus resilience-based metrics

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Shifting baseline syndrome: causes, consequences, and implications

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Simultaneous synergist, antagonistic and additive interactions between multiple local stressors all degrade algal turf communities on coral reefs

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Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

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Local human activities limit marine protection efficacy on Caribbean coral reefs

(2018) Adam Suchley et al.   Conservation Letters

The role of the reef flat in coral reef trophodynamics: Past, present, and future

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Reef fish communities are spooked by scuba surveys and may take hours to recover

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Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

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Sediment addition drives declines in algal turf yield to herbivorous coral reef fishes: implications for reefs and reef fisheries

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Decadal-scale response of detritivorous surgeonfishes (family Acanthuridae) to no-take marine reserve protection and changes in benthic habitat

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Fine sediment and particulate organic matter: A review and case study on ridge-to-reef transport, transformations, fates, and impacts on marine ecosystems

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The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

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Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive rats

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Decadal erosion of coral assemblages by multiple disturbances in the Palm Islands, central Great Barrier Reef

(2018) Gergely Torda et al.   Scientific Reports

Scenario planning with linked land-sea models inform where forest conservation actions will promote coral reef resilience

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Productive instability of coral reef fisheries after climate-driven regime shifts

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A social-ecological approach to assessing and managing poaching by recreational fishers

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The threat to coral reefs from more intense cyclones under climate change

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Upstream solutions to coral reef conservation: The payoffs of smart and cooperative decision-making

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Settlement patterns of the coral Acropora millepora on sediment-laden surfaces

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A budget of algal production and consumption by herbivorous fish in an herbivore fisheries management area, Maui, Hawaii

(2017) Emily L. A. Kelly et al.   Ecosphere

Algal Turf Sediments and Sediment Production by Parrotfishes across the Continental Shelf of the Northern Great Barrier Reef

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The Effects of Algal Turf Sediments and Organic Loads on Feeding by Coral Reef Surgeonfishes

(2017) Sterling B. Tebbett et al.   PLoS One

Sediments and herbivory as sensitive indicators of coral reef degradation

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How accessible are coral reefs to people? A global assessment based on travel time

(2016) Eva Maire et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking Terrigenous Sediment Delivery to Declines in Coral Reef Ecosystem Services

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Framing ecosystem services in the telecoupled Anthropocene

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Composition and temporal stability of turf sediments on inner-shelf coral reefs

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Investigating functional redundancy versus complementarity in Hawaiian herbivorous coral reef fishes

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A test of trophic cascade theory: fish and benthic assemblages across a predator density gradient on coral reefs

(2016) Jordan M. Casey et al.   OECOLOGIA

Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific

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Effects of Protection and Sediment Stress on Coral Reefs in Saint Lucia

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Low-quality sediments deter grazing by the parrotfish Scarus rivulatus on inner-shelf reefs

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The parrotfish–coral relationship: refuting the ubiquity of a prevailing paradigm

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Distribution, behavior, and condition of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs track algal resources

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Not all traits are ‘functional’: insights from taxonomy and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

(2014) Musa C. Mlambo   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Impact of conservation areas on trophic interactions between apex predators and herbivores on coral reefs

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Effects of sediment depth on algal turf height are mediated by interactions with fish herbivory on a fringing reef

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Identifying multiple coral reef regimes and their drivers across the Hawaiian archipelago

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Avoiding Coral Reef Functional Collapse Requires Local and Global Action

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A Bayesian approach for estimating length-weight relationships in fishes

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A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers

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Ecological Consequences of Sediment on High-Energy Coral Reefs

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Monitoring Herbivorous Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience in American Samoa

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Relating sediment impacts on coral reefs to watershed sources, processes and management: A review

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Linking ecosystem processes and ecosystem services

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Terrigenous sediment impact on coral recruitment and growth affects the use of coral habitat by recruit parrotfishes (F. Scaridae)

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Sediment suppresses herbivory across a coral reef depth gradient

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Terrestrial pollutant runoff to the Great Barrier Reef: An update of issues, priorities and management responses

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A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

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Spatial variation in the effects of grazing on epilithic algal turfs on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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The effects of top–down versus bottom–up control on benthic coral reef community structure

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