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Dead foundation species create coral rubble habitat that benefits a resilient pest species
Critical loss of habitat is the greatest threat to biodiversity, yet some species are inherently plastic to and may even benefit from changes in ecosystem states. The crown-of-thorns sea star (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.) may be one such organism. CoTS are large corallivores native to the tropical Indo-Pacific and in unexplained high densities, can adversely affect entire coral reefs. Proximal causes of CoTS outbreaks remain elusive, so this phenomenon remains a daunting and costly challenge for reef conservation and management. Amplifying anthropogenic impacts and new empirical data point to the degraded reef hypothesis to explain the episodic nature of CoTS population outbreaks. We posit that loss of live coral paradoxically benefits CoTS juveniles, which accumulate in their rubble nursery habitat before conditions trigger their pulsed emergence as coral-eaters. We review trait plasticity across the CoTS life cycle and present the degraded reef hypothesis in an integrative understanding of their propensity to outbreak.
期刊介绍:
Marine Environmental Research publishes original research papers on chemical, physical, and biological interactions in the oceans and coastal waters. The journal serves as a forum for new information on biology, chemistry, and toxicology and syntheses that advance understanding of marine environmental processes.
Submission of multidisciplinary studies is encouraged. Studies that utilize experimental approaches to clarify the roles of anthropogenic and natural causes of changes in marine ecosystems are especially welcome, as are those studies that represent new developments of a theoretical or conceptual aspect of marine science. All papers published in this journal are reviewed by qualified peers prior to acceptance and publication. Examples of topics considered to be appropriate for the journal include, but are not limited to, the following:
– The extent, persistence, and consequences of change and the recovery from such change in natural marine systems
– The biochemical, physiological, and ecological consequences of contaminants to marine organisms and ecosystems
– The biogeochemistry of naturally occurring and anthropogenic substances
– Models that describe and predict the above processes
– Monitoring studies, to the extent that their results provide new information on functional processes
– Methodological papers describing improved quantitative techniques for the marine sciences.