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Assessment of coral reefs using herbivory/nutrient assays and indicator groups of benthic primary producers: a critical synthesis, proposed protocols, and critique of management strategies
| Title: | Assessment of coral reefs using herbivory/nutrient assays and indicator groups of benthic primary producers: a critical synthesis, proposed protocols, and critique of management strategies. |
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| Name(s): |
Littler, Mark M., creator Littler, Diane S., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2006 | |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | |
| Extent: | 22 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3174117 (digitool), FADT3174117 (IID), fau:5780 (fedora), 10.1002/aqc.790 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Rapid assessment protocols for determining and monitoring the status of any given coral reef are provided and include measuring: (a) standing stocks of functional indicator groups, (b) herbivore populations, (c) water-column nutrient levels, (d) tissue C:N:P ratios, (e) algal physiological-response assays, and (f) herbivory assays. These measurements can reveal quantitative tipping-point levels beyond which resilience to undesirable phase shifts begins to become critically reduced. Universal tipping-point approximations are reviewed for inorganic nutrients, and posited for the first time for herbivory. This manuscript is an author version with the final publicationavailable at http://www.interscience.wiley.com and may be cited as: Littler, M. M., & Littler, D. S.(2007). Assessment of coral reefs using herbivory/nutrient assays and indicator groups of benthicprimary producers: a critical synthesis, proposed protocols, and critique of management strategies. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 17(2), 195-215. doi:10.1002/aqc.790 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1628. |
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| Subject(s): |
Coral reef ecology Reefs Coral |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174117 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.790 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the U.S.A. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
