A5034903593- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
James Cook University
2021-2025
Australian Institute of Marine Science
2020-2025
AIMS@JCU
2021-2024
Aims Community College
2024
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
2022
Knowledge of coral larval precompetency periods and maximum competency windows is fundamental to understanding population dynamics, informing biogeography connectivity patterns, predicting reef recovery following disturbances. Yet for many species, estimates these early-life history metrics are scarce vary widely. Furthermore, settlement cues taxa not known despite consequences habitat selection. Here we performed a comprehensive experimental time-series investigation behaviour, 25...
Healthy benthic substrates that induce coral larvae to settle are necessary for recovery. Yet, the biochemical cues required settlement have not been identified many taxa. Here we tested ability of crustose coralline alga (CCA) Porolithon onkodes attachment and metamorphosis, collectively termed settlement, from 15 ecologically important species families Acroporidae, Merulinidae, Poritidae, Diploastreidae. Live CCA fragments, ethanol extracts, hot aqueous extracts P. induced (> 10%) 11, 7, 6...
Coral seeding is a restoration technique developed to replenish degraded reefs; however, grazing by herbivorous fish can impede coral survival post deployment. To investigate the impacts of hydrodynamics and on seeded‐coral survival, we deployed aquaria‐reared Acropora digitifera spat engineered‐seeding devices across 10 sites spanning wave‐energy gradient at Moore Reef (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). Two were used role grazing: fish‐exclusion device featureless control. After 1 year, over...
Declining coral cover on tropical reefs often results in a concomitant increase macroalgae. When proliferation of macroalgae persists outside regular seasonal growth, it can shift the ecosystem dominance away from corals into permanently altered system. Such an system is unlikely to recover naturally, despite ample supply larvae, as settlement and survival reduced by presence Physical removal has been proposed overcome this biotic barrier recovery, although empirical evidence demonstrating...
<title>Abstract</title> Restoration methods that seed juvenile corals show promise as scalable interventions to promote population persistence through anthropogenic warming. However, challenges including predation by fishes can threaten coral survival. Coral-seeding devices with refugia from offer potential solutions limit predation-driven mortality. In an 8-month field study, we assessed the efficacy of such for increasing survival captive-reared <italic>Acropora digitifera</italic> (spat...
Abstract Knowledge of coral larval precompetency periods and maximum competency windows is fundamental to understanding population dynamics, informing biogeography connectivity patterns, predicting reef recovery following disturbances. Yet for many species, estimates these early-life history metrics are scarce vary widely. Furthermore, settlement cues taxa not known despite consequences habitat selection. Here we performed a comprehensive experimental time-series investigation behaviour, 25...