1. Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase
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Ruth D. Gates, Satoshi Mitarai, Kazuhiko Sakai, Put O. Ang, Robert S. Steneck, Robert C. Carpenter, Louis Legendre, Rebecca Albright, Haruko Kurihara, Tung-Yung Fan, Apy Chui, H. Kitano, Soyoka Muko, Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño, Saki Harii, Peter J. Edmunds, Go Suzuki, Nichole N. Price, Mjh van Oppen, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Nagasaki University, Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Maine, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), University of Melbourne, Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong], California State University [Northridge] (CSUN), National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, University of Hawaii, University of the Ryukyus [Okinawa], Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), and University of Washington [Seattle]
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0106 biological sciences ,Retrospective analyses ,Range (biology) ,Coral ,Poleward range shift ,Subtropics ,Aquatic Science ,01 natural sciences ,Latitude ,14. Life underwater ,Reef ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,[SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography ,Coral settlement ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Global warming ,Tropics ,Ocean acidification ,Equatorial retraction ,Oceanography ,13. Climate action ,[SDV.EE.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Bioclimatology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Range extension - Abstract
Despite widespread climate-driven reductions of coral cover on tropical reefs, little attention has been paid to the possibility that changes in the geographic distribution of coral recruitment could facilitate beneficial responses to the changing climate through latitudinal range shifts. To address this possibility, we compiled a global database of normalized densities of coral recruits on settlement tiles (corals m^) deployed from 1974 to 2012, and used the data therein to test for latitudinal range shifts in the distribution of coral recruits. In total, 92 studies provided 1253 records of coral recruitment, with 77% originating from settlement tiles immersed for 3-24 mo, herein defined as long-immersion tiles (LITs); the limited temporal and geographic coverage of data from short-immersion tiles (SITs; deployed for 20° latitude). These trends indicate that a global decline in coral recruitment has occurred since 1974, and the persistent reduction in the densities of recruits in equatorial latitudes, coupled with increased densities in sub-tropical latitudes, suggests that coral recruitment may be shifting poleward., 論文
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- 2019
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