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Title: Contrasting patterns of changes in abundance following a bleaching event between juvenile and adult scleractinian corals
Abstract: Coral bleaching events have caused extensive mortality on reefs around the world. Juvenile corals are generally less affected by bleaching than their conspecific adults and therefore have the potential to buffer population declines and seed recovery. Here, we use juvenile and adult abundance data at 20 sites encircling Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, before and after the 2016 bleaching event to quantify: (1) correlates of changes in juvenile abundance following a bleaching event; (2) differences in susceptibility to extreme thermal stress between juveniles and adults. Declines in juvenile abundance were lower at sites closer to the 20-m-depth contour and higher for Acropora and Pocillopora juveniles than for other taxa. Juveniles of Acropor and Goniastre were less susceptible to bleaching than adults, but the opposite was true for Pocillopora spp. and taxa in the family Merulinidae. Our results indicate that the potential of the juvenile life stage to act as a buffer during bleaching events is taxon-dependent.
WebOfScience code: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000432285500019
Bibliographic citation: Álvarez-Noriega, M.; Baird, A.H.; Bridge, T.C.L.; Dornelas, M.; Fontoura, L.; Pizarro, O.; Precoda, K.; Torres-Pulliza, D.; Woods, R.M.; Zawada, K.; Madin, J.S. (2018). Contrasting patterns of changes in abundance following a bleaching event between juvenile and adult scleractinian corals. Coral Reefs 37(2): 527-532. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-1677-y
Topic: Marine
Is peer reviewed: true

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