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Transient demographic approaches can drastically expand the toolbox of coral reef science

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Date
23/04/2022
Author
Cant, James
Salguero-Gómez, Roberto
Beger, Maria
Keywords
Asymptotic dynamics
Disturbances
Population dynamics
Reef conservation
Resilience
GE Environmental Sciences
QH301 Biology
3rd-DAS
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Coral communities are threatened by an increasing plethora of abiotic and biotic disturbances. Preventing the ensuing loss of coral coverage and diversity calls for a mechanistic understanding of resilience across coral species and populations that is currently lacking in coral reef science. Assessments into the dynamics of coral populations typically focus on their long-term (i.e. asymptotic) characteristics, tacitly assuming stable environments in which populations can attain their long-term characteristics. Instead, we argue that greater focus is needed on investigating the transient (i.e. short-term) dynamics of coral populations to describe and predict their characteristics and trajectories within unstable environments. Applying transient demographic approaches to evaluating and forecasting the responses of coral populations to disturbance holds promise for expediting our capacity to predict and manage the resilience of coral populations, species, and communities.
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Cant , J , Salguero-Gómez , R & Beger , M 2022 , ' Transient demographic approaches can drastically expand the toolbox of coral reef science ' , Coral Reefs . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02250-x
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Coral Reefs
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02250-x
ISSN
0722-4028
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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This work was supported by a NERC DTP scholarship to JC and a NERC Independent Research Fellowship (NE/M018458/1) to RS-G.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25285

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