Sedimentation and distributions of green and brown morphs of the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides Lamarck

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-89

  Gleason, Daniel F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corals; Light attenuation; Porites astreoides; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CORAL;

COLOR MORPH; CORAL; SEDIMENTATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

ANTHOZOA; PORITES ASTREOIDES;

EID: 0032533850     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(98)00084-7     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Abdel-Salam, H.A., Porter, J.W., 1988. Physiological effects of sediment rejection on photosynthesis and respiration in three Caribbean reef corals. Proc. Sixth Int. Coral Reef Symp. 2, 285-292.
2. Adey, W.H., 1975. The algal ridges and coral reefs of St. Croix: their structure and Holocene development. Atoll Res. Bull. 187, 1-67.
3. Adjeroud, M., Salvat, B., 1996. Spatial patterns in biodiversity of a fringing reef community along Opunohu Bay, Moorea, French Polynesia. Bull. Mar. Sci. 59, 175-187.
4. Bak, R.P.M., 1978. Lethal and sublethal effects of dredging on reef corals. Mar. Poll. Bull. 9, 14-16.
5. Bak, R.P.M., Elgershuizen, J.H.B.W., 1976. Patterns of oil-sediment rejection in corals. Mar. Biol. 37, 105-113.
6. Brown, B.E., Howard, L.S., 1985. Assessing the effects of "stress" on reef corals. Adv. Mar. Biol. 22, 1-63.
7. Butman, C.A., 1986. Sediment trap biases in turbulent flows: results from a laboratory flume study. J. Mar. Res. 44, 645-693.
8. Coffroth, M.A., 1990. Mucous sheet formation on poritid corals: an evaluation of coral mucus as a nutrient source on reefs. Mar. Biol. 105, 39-49.
9. Dodge, R.E., Vaisnys, J.R., 1977. Coral populations and growth patterns: responses to sedimentation and turbidity associated with dredging. J. Mar. Res. 35, 715-730.
10. Gardner, W.D., 1980. Field assessment of sediment traps. J. Mar. Res. 38, 41-52.
11. Gleason, D.F., 1993. Differential effects of ultraviolet radiation on green and brown morphs of the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides. Limnol. Oceanogr. 38, 1452-1463.
12. Goreau, T.F., 1959. The physiology of skeleton formation in corals. I. A method for measuring the rate of calcium deposition by corals under different conditions. Biol. Bull. 116, 59-75.
13. Hodgson, G., 1990. Tetracycline reduces sedimentation damage to corals. Mar. Biol. 104, 493-496.
14. Hubbard, D.K., 1986. Sedimentation as a control of reef development: St Croix, US V.I. Coral Reefs 5, 117-125.
15. Hubbard, D.K. (Ed.), 1989. The shelf-edge reefs of Davis and Cane Bays, northwestern St. Croix, U.S.V.I. In: Terrestrial and Marine Geology of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. West Indies Lab. Special Publ. No. 8, pp. 167-179.
16. Hubbard, D.K., Scaturo, D., 1985. Growth rates of seven species of scleractinian corals from Cane Bay and Salt River, St. Croix, US VI. Bull. Mar. Sci. 36, 325-338.
17. Hubbard, J.A.E.B., Pocock, Y.P., 1972. Sediment rejection by recent scleractinian corals: a key to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Geol. Rdsch. 61, 598-626.
18. Kendall, Jr. J.J., Powell, E.N., Connor, S.J., Bright, T.J., Zastrow, C.E., 1985. Effects of turbidity on calcification rate, protein concentration and the free amino acid pool of the coral Acropora cervicornis. Mar. Biol. 87, 33-46.
19. Lasker, H.R., 1980. Sediment rejection by reef corals: the roles of behavior and morphology in Montastrea cavernosa (Linnaeus). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 47, 77-87.
20. Loya, Y., 1976. Effects of water turbidity and sedimentation on the community structure of Puerto Rican corals. Bull. Mar. Sci. 26, 450-466.
21. Meesters, E.H., Bos, A., Gast, G.J., 1992. Effects of sedimentation and lesion position on coral tissue regeneration. Proc. Seventh Int. Coral Reef Symp. 2, 671-678.
22. Morelock, J., Grove, K., Hernandez, M., 1983. Oceanography and patterns of shelf sediments, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. J. Sedim. Petrol. 53, 371-381.
23. Ott, B., 1975. Community patterns on a submerged barrier reef at Barbados, West Indies. Int. Revue Ges. Hydrobiol. 60, 719-736.
24. Potts, D.C., Budd, A.F., Garthwaite, R.L., 1993. Soft tissue vs. skeletal approaches to species recognition and phylogeny reconstruction in corals. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg. 164, 221-231.
25. Riegl, B., Branch, G.M., 1995. Effects of sediment on the energy budgets of four scleractinian (Bourne 1900) and five alcyonacean (Lamouroux 1816) corals. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 186, 259-275.
26. Rogers, C.S., 1983. Sublethal and lethal effects of sediments applied to common Caribbean reef corals in the field. Mar. Poll. Bull. 14, 378-382.
27. Rogers, C.S., 1990. Responses of coral reefs and reef organisms to sedimentation. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 62, 185-202.
28. Schuhmacher, H., 1977. Ability in fungiid corals to overcome sedimentation. Proc. Third Int. Coral Reef Symp. 1, 503-509.
29. Smith, R.C., Baker, K.S., 1981. Optical properties of the clearest natural waters (200-800 nm). Appl. Optics 20, 177-184.
30. Stafford-Smith, M.G., 1993. Sediment-rejection efficiency of 22 species of Australian scleractinian corals. Mar. Biol. 115, 229-243.
31. Stafford-Smith, M.G., Ormand, R.F.G., 1992. Sediment-rejection mechanisms of 42 species of Australian scleractinian corals. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 43, 683-705.
32. Tomascik, T., Sander, F., 1985. Effects of eutrophication on reef-building corals. I. Growth rate of the reef-building coral Montastrea annularis. Mar. Biol. 87, 143-155.
33. Tomascik, T., Sander, F., 1987. Effect of eutrophication on reef-building corals. II. Structure of scleractinian coral communities on fringing reefs, Barbados, West Indies. Mar. Biol. 94, 53-75.
34. van Katwijk, M.M., Meier, N.F., van Loon, R., van Hove, E.M., Giesen, W.B.J.T., van der Velde, G., den Hartog, C., 1993. Sabaki River sediment load and coral stress: correlation between sediments and condition of the Malindi-Watamu reefs in Kenya (Indian Ocean). Mar. Biol. 117, 675-683.
35. Wood-Jones, F., 1910. Coral and Atolls. Reeve, London.