Degradation of Caribbean coral reefs: Focusing on proximal rather than ultimate drivers. Reply to Rogers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1655, 2009, Pages 199-200

  Mora, Camilo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE STRESS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 58149216515     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1289     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Aronson, R. B. et al. 2004 Causes of coral reef degradation. Science 302, 1502-1504.
2. Bruno, J. F., Peter, L. F., Harvell, C. D. & Hettinger, A. 2003 Nutrient can increase the severity of coral diseases. Ecol. Lett. 6, 1056-1061.
3. Bruno, J. F., Selig, E. R., Casey, K. S., Page, C. A., Willis, B. L., Harvell, C. D., Sweatman, H. & Melendy, A. M. 2007 Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks. PLoS Biol. 5, e124.
4. Grigg, R. W. et al. 2005 Reassessing U.S. coral reefs. Science 308, 1740-1742.
5. Harvell, C. D. et al. 1999 Emerging marine diseases - climate links and anthropogenic factors. Science 285, 1505-1510.
6. Jones, G. P., McCormick, M. I., Srinivisan, B. & Eagle, J. V. 2004 Coral decline threatens fish biodiversity in marine reserves. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101, 8251-8253.
7. Kline, D. L., Kuntz, N. M., Breitbart, M., Knowlton, N. & Rohwer, F. 2006 Role of elevated organic carbon levels and microbial activity in coral mortality. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 314, 119-125.
8. Kuntz, N. M., Kline, D. L., Sandin, S. A. & Rohwer, F. 2005 Pathologies and mortality rates caused by organic carbon and nutrient stressors in three Caribbean coral species. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 294, 173-180.
9. Lesser, M. P., Byhtell, J. C., Gates, R. D., Johnstone, R. W. & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. 2007 Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 346, 36-44.
10. McClanahan, T. R. 2008 Response of the coral reef benthos and herbivory to fishery closure management and the 1998 ENSO disturbance. Oecologia 155, 169-177.
11. Mora, C. 2008 A clear human footprint in the coral reefs of the Caribbean. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 767-773.
12. Mora, C., Andrefouet, S., Costello, M. J., Kranenburg, C., Rollo, A., Vernon, J., Gaston, K. J. & Myers, R. A. 2006 Coral reefs and the global network of marine protected areas. Science 312, 1750-1751.
13. Mora, C., Metzker, R., Rollo, A. & Myers, R. A. 2007 Experimental simulations about the effects of habitat fragmentation and overexploitation on populations facing environmental warming. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 1023-1028.
14. Rogers, C. 2009 Coral bleaching and disease should not be underestimated as causes of Caribbean coral reef decline. Proc. R. Soc. B 276, 197-198.