<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kayal, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lenihan, H. S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pau, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penin, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adjeroud, M.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Associational refuges among corals mediate impacts of a crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci outbreak</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coral Reefs</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MCR</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">30</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">827-837</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0722-4028</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interactions among coral populations can moderate the impact of coral predator outbreaks, enhancing community resilience and recovery. This study used predator-exclusion cages and neighbour removals in a field experiment to test how indirect interactions between populations of three coral taxa, Acropora, Pocillopora, and Porites, influenced their survival during an outbreak of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, in Moorea, French Polynesia. High densities of corals enhanced survival by generating associational refuges: physical structures that impeded Acanthaster and protected corals, and by simple density-dependent prey dilution that reduced predation rates. Acanthaster showed feeding preferences, resulting in varying intensities of predation on corals, which (1) influenced the type and strength of the associational refuge among corals and (2) resulted in significant loss of the competitive dominants to the benefit of the competitive inferiors. The result was a set of indirect positive interactions (IPIs) that prevented Acanthaster from eradicating Acropora and may have enhanced Porites, a relatively weak competitor among corals. IPIs probably play a key role in many ecosystems, especially in coral reefs in which corals act as engineer species, to reduce impacts of perturbations and enhance community resilience. This study illustrates the importance of IPIs in community regulation with a new conceptual model.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LTER.2011-86104</style></accession-num></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adjeroud, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Galzin, R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michonneau, F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Edmunds, P.J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chancerelle, Y.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Loma, T. L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penin, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thibaut, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vidal-Dupiol, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvat, B.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Recurrent disturbances, recovery trajectories, and resilience of coral assemblages on a South Central Pacific reef</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MCR</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;Go to ISI&gt;://000268323800026</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">775-780</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0722-4028</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by various disturbances, and a critical challenge is to determine their ability for resistance and resilience. Coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia, have been impacted by multiple disturbances (one cyclone and four bleaching events between 1991 and 2006). The 1991 disturbances caused large declines in coral cover (similar to 51% to similar to 22%), and subsequent colonization by turf algae (similar to 16% to similar to 49%), but this phase-shift from coral to algal dominance has not persisted. Instead, the composition of the coral community changed following the disturbances, notably favoring an increased cover of Porites, reduced cover of Montipora and Pocillopora, and a full return of Acropora; in this form, the reef returned to pre-disturbance coral cover within a decade. Thus, this coral assemblage is characterized by resilience in terms of coral cover, but plasticity in terms of community composition.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LTER.2009-83510</style></accession-num></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penin, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adjeroud, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schrimm, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lenihan, H. S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High spatial variability in coral bleaching around Moorea (French Polynesia): patterns across locations and water depths</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MCR</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;Go to ISI&gt;://000244924400009</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">330</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">171-181</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1631-0691</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mass coral bleaching events are one of the main threats to coral reefs. A severe bleaching event impacted Moorea, French Polynesia, between March and July 2002, causing 55 +/- 14% of colonies to suffer bleaching around the island. However, bleaching varied significantly across coral genera, locations, and as a function of water depth, with a bleaching level as high as 72% at some stations. Corals in deeper water bleached at a higher rate than those in shallow water, and the north coast was more impacted than the west coast. The relatively small scale of variability in bleaching responses probably resulted from the interaction between extrinsic factors, including hydrodynamic condition, and intrinsic factors, such as differential adaptation of the coral/algal association.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LTER.2007-83484</style></accession-num></record></records></xml>