MCR
Coral recruitment in Moorea: reef recovery in a new era of acid water and high temperature
Poster Number: 275 Presenter/Primary Author: Peter Edmunds Over the last 50 y, coral reefs have lost a large proportion of their coral cover through the actions of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The changes have been so extensive that many r
The Moorea Coral Reef LTER Site
Poster Number: 274 Presenter/Primary Author: Sally Holbrook The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site, established in 2004, explores community and ecosystem effects of pulsed perturbations and slowly changing environmental drivers on coral reefs, ecologically a
Interaction of hydrodynamics and corallivory control growth of branching Acropora
Poster Number: 239 Presenter/Primary Author: Hunter Lenihan Coral community shifts are a common, recent phenomenon across reefs in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific, and have been related in time and space to catastrophic natural disturbances, especially storm
Sea level, current, and surface wave variability at the Moorea Coral Reef LTER site
Poster Number: 233 Presenter/Primary Author: Libe Washburn As part of the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research project we are examining the effects of sea level, surface gravity wave, and current variability on the coral reef ecosystem of Moorea
Resilience of Pacific Staghorn Coral is governed by a fish
Poster Number: 205 Presenter/Primary Author: Russell Schmitt Thicket-forming staghorn corals provide essential habitat for fishes and invertebrates on tropical reefs worldwide, but they are highly vulnerable to disturbances.
