Portfolio effects and functional redundancy contribute to the maintenance of octocoral forests on Caribbean reefs.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 05 2022
02 05 2022
Historique:
received:
06
11
2021
accepted:
29
03
2022
entrez:
2
5
2022
pubmed:
3
5
2022
medline:
6
5
2022
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epublish
Résumé
Declines in abundance of scleractinian corals on shallow Caribbean reefs have left many reefs dominated by forests of arborescent octocorals. The ecological mechanisms favoring their persistence require exploration. We quantified octocoral communities from 2014 to 2019 at two sites in St. John, US Virgin Islands, and evaluated their dynamics to assess whether portfolio effects might contribute to their resilience. Octocorals were identified to species, or species complexes, and their abundances and heights were measured, with height
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pubmed: 35501329
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-10478-4
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-10478-4
pmc: PMC9061744
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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eng
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