Population Dynamics of the Reef Crisis

Introduction: Population dynamics of the reef crisis Bernhard Riegl 1. Population dynamics of the reef crisis: Consequences of the growing human population Bernhard Riegl and Peter W. Glynn 2. Projected shifts in coral size structure in the Anthropocene Chiara Pisapia, Peter J. Edmunds, Holly V. Moeller, Bernhard Riegl, Mike McWilliam, Christopher D. Wells and Morgan S. Pratchett 3. Population dynamics of diseased corals: Effects of a Shut Down Reaction outbreak in Puerto Rican Acropora cervicornis Alex E. Mercado-Molina, Alberto M. Sabat and Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado 4. Spatial and temporal differences in Acropora cervicornis colony size and health Elizabeth A. Goergen, Kathleen Semon Lunz and David S. Gilliam 5. Population dynamics and growth rates of free-living mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in sediment-stressed reefs of Singapore Rian Prasetia, Zi Wei Lim, Aaron Teo, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya and Peter A. Todd 6. Population fluctuations of the fungiid coral Cycloseris curvata, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Joshua S. Feingold and Brandon Brulé 7. Considering the rates of growth in two taxa of coral across Pacific islands Stuart A. Sandin, Clinton B. Edwards, Nicole E. Pedersen, Vid Petrovic, Gaia Pavoni, Esmeralda Alcantar, Kendall S. Chancellor, Michael D. Fox, Brenna Stallings, Christopher J. Sullivan, Randi Rotjan, Federico Ponchio and Brian J. Zgliczynski 8. Biophysical model of coral population connectivity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf Geórgenes Cavalcante, Filipe Vieira, Jonas Mortensen, Radhouane Ben-Hamadou, Pedro Range, Elizabeth Goergen, Edmo Campos and Bernhard Riegl 9. Larval connectivity and water quality explain spatial distribution of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks across the Great Barrier Reef Matthews S, Mellin C and Pratchett M 10. COTSMod: A spatially explicit metacommunity model of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish and coral recovery S. Matthews, K. Shoemaker, M.S. Pratchett and C. Mellin 11. Coral community life histories and population dynamics driven by seascape bathymetry and temperature variability T.R. McClanahan 12. The timing and causality of ecological shifts on Caribbean reefs William F. Precht, Richard B. Aronson, Toby A. Gardner, Jennifer A. Gill, Julie P. Hawkins, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Walter C. Jaap, Tim R. Mcclanahan, Melanie D. Mcfield, Thaddeus J.T. Murdoch, Maggy M. Nugues, Callum M. Roberts, Christiane K. Schelten, Andrew R. Watkinson and Isabelle M. Côté 13. The rise of octocoral forests on Caribbean reefs Howard R. Lasker, Lorenzo Bramanti, Georgios Tsounis and Peter J. Edmunds 14. Octocoral populations and connectivity in continental Ecuador and Galápagos, Eastern Pacific Sascha C.C. Steiner, Priscilla Martínez, Fernando Rivera, Mathew Johnston and Bernhard Riegl 15. A tropical eastern Pacific invasive brittle star species (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) reaches southeastern Florida Peter W. Glynn, Renata Alitto, Joshua Dominguez, Ana B. Christensen, Phillip Gillette, Nicolas Martinez, Bernhard M. Riegl and Kyle Dettloff