Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery

TM Kenyon, C Doropoulos, K Wolfe… - Limnology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
With rubble predicted to increase on coral reefs worldwide, we review the physical,
biological, and ecological dynamics of rubble beds, with a focus on how rubble generation …

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming

JM Gove, GJ Williams, J Lecky, E Brown, E Conklin… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are being fundamentally restructured by local human impacts and
climate-driven marine heatwaves that trigger mass coral bleaching and mortality. Reducing …

Numerical modeling of the impact of sea-level rise on fringing coral reef hydrodynamics and sediment transport

CD Storlazzi, E Elias, ME Field, MK Presto - Coral Reefs, 2011‏ - Springer
Most climate projections suggest that sea level may rise on the order of 0.5–1.0 m by 2100; it
is not clear, however, how fluid flow and sediment dynamics on exposed fringing reefs might …

Benthic communities at two remote Pacific coral reefs: effects of reef habitat, depth, and wave energy gradients on spatial patterns

GJ Williams, JE Smith, EJ Conklin, JM Gove, E Sala… - PeerJ, 2013‏ - peerj.com
Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific are among the most remote coral
reefs on the planet. Here we describe spatial patterns in their benthic communities across …

Frictional wave dissipation on a remarkably rough reef

SG Monismith, JS Rogers, D Koweek… - Geophysical …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a week of observations of wave dissipation on the south forereef of Palmyra
Atoll. Using wave measurements made in 6.2 m and 11.2 m of water offshore of the surf …

Quantifying climatological ranges and anomalies for Pacific coral reef ecosystems

JM Gove, GJ Williams, MA McManus, SF Heron… - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Coral reef ecosystems are exposed to a range of environmental forcings that vary on daily to
decadal time scales and across spatial scales spanning from reefs to archipelagos …

Coral reef benthic regimes exhibit non-linear threshold responses to natural physical drivers

JM Gove, GJ Williams, MA McManus, SJ Clark… - Marine Ecology …, 2015‏ - int-res.com
We assessed the independent effects of natural physical drivers in structuring coral reef
benthic communities at a remote oceanic atoll in the central equatorial Pacific with minimal …

[HTML][HTML] Mobilisation thresholds for coral rubble and consequences for windows of reef recovery

TM Kenyon, D Harris, T Baldock, D Callaghan… - …, 2023‏ - bg.copernicus.org
The proportional cover of rubble on reefs is predicted to increase as disturbances increase
in intensity and frequency. Unstable rubble can kill coral recruits and impair binding …

Directional wave climate and power variability along the Southeast Australian shelf

TR Mortlock, ID Goodwin - Continental Shelf Research, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Variability in the modal wave climate is a key process driving large-scale coastal behaviour
on moderate-to high-energy sandy coastlines, and is strongly related to variability in …

Wave‐driven hydrodynamic processes over fringing reefs with varying slopes, depths, and roughness: Implications for coastal protection

ML Buckley, RJ Lowe, JE Hansen… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wave breaking on the steep fore‐reef slopes of shallow fringing reefs can be effective at
dissipating incident sea‐swell waves prior to reaching reef shorelines. However, wave setup …