A review of published literature on the sensitivity of corals to turbidity and sedimentation is
presented, with an emphasis on the effects of dredging. The risks and severity of impact from …

Cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) are one of the major natural disturbances on coral reefs,
and they affect coral reef structure and functioning at different spatial and temporal scales …

The commonly observed high diversity of trees in tropical rain forests and corals on tropical
reefs is a nonequilibrium state which, if not disturbed further, will progress toward a low …

This paper is designed to draw attention to the relation between tropical climatic uniformity at
a given site and the effectiveness of topographic barriers adjacent to the site in preventing …

The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics brings together the findings and
ideas of researchers studying such varied systems as marine invertebrate communities; …

We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

Coral reef bleaching, the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa, results from the loss of
symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in …

Human impacts on the world's oceans have been substantial, leading to concerns about the
extinction of marine taxa. We have compiled 133 local, regional and global extinctions of …

Natural disturbances have been traditionally defined in terms of major catastrophic events
originating in the physical environment and, hence, have been regarded as exogenous …

The effects of disturbance on local species diversity were investigated in an algaldominated
intertidal boulder field in southern California. In this habitat, the major form of disturbance …