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Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase

2019; Inter-Research; Volume: 621; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3354/meps12980

1616-1599

Nichole N. Price, Soyoka Muko, Laurent Legendre, R Steneck, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Rebecca Albright, Put O. Ang, RC Carpenter, A. P. Y. Chui, TY Fan, RD Gates, Saki Harii, Hiroaki Kitano, Haruko Kurihara, Satoshi Mitarai, JL Padilla-Gamiño, Kazuhiko Sakai, G. Suzuki, Peter J. Edmunds,

Marine and coastal plant biology

MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 621:1-17 (2019) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12980 FEATURE ARTICLE Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase N. N. Price1,*, S. Muko2, L. Legendre3, R. Steneck4, M. J. H. van Oppen5,6, R. Albright5,7,18, P. Ang Jr.8, R. C. Carpenter9, A. P. Y. Chui8, T.-Y. Fan10, R. D. Gates11, S. Harii12, H. Kitano13, H. Kurihara14, S. Mitarai15, J. L. Padilla-Gamiño16, K. Sakai12, G. Suzuki17, P. J. Edmunds9 1Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME 04544, USA 2Graduate School of Fisheries Science and Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Nagasaki City, Japan 3Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 4University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Darling Marine Center, Walpole, ME 04353, USA 5Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville MC, QLD 4810, Australia 6School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia 7Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA 8Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT Hong Kong, SAR, China 9Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8303, USA 10National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung 944, Taiwan 11Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA 12Sesoko Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Motobu-cho, Okinawa 905-0227, Japan 13Open Biology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan 14Faculty of Science, Biology Program, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan 15Marine Biophysics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan 16School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA 17Research Center for Subtropical Fisheries, Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Ishigaki, Okinawa 907-0451, Japan 18Present address: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA *Corresponding author: nprice@bigelow.org ABSTRACT: Despite widespread climate-driven reductions of coral cover on tropical reefs, little attention has been paid to the possibility that changes in the geographic distribution of coral recruitment could facilitate beneficial responses to the changing climate through latitudinal range shifts. To address this possibility, we compiled a global database of normalized densities of coral recruits on settlement tiles (corals m-2) deployed from 1974 to 2012, and used the data therein to test for latitudinal range shifts in the distribution of coral recruits. In total, 92 studies provided 1253 records of coral recruitment, with 77% originating from settlement tiles immersed for 3-24 mo, herein defined as long-immersion tiles (LITs); the limited temporal and geographic coverage of data from short-immersion tiles (SITs; deployed for <3 mo) made them less suitable for the present purpose. The results from LITs show declines in coral recruitment, on a global scale (i.e. 82% from 1974 to 2012) and throughout the tropics (85% reduction at 20° latitude). These trends indicate that a global decline in coral recruitment has occurred since 1974, and the persistent reduction in the densities of recruits in equatorial latitudes, coupled with increased densities in sub-tropical latitudes, suggests that coral recruitment may be shifting poleward. KEY WORDS: Coral settlement · Poleward range shift · Range extension · Equatorial retraction · Retrospective analyses · Global warming Full text in pdf format Information about this Feature Article Supplement 1 Supplement 2 Correction to Supplement 1 NextCite this article as: Price NN, Muko S, Legendre L, Steneck R and others (2019) Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 621:1-17. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12980 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 621. Online publication date: July 04, 2019 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2019 Inter-Research.