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dc.creatorStuhldreier, Ines
dc.creatorSánchez Noguera, Celeste
dc.creatorRoth, Florian
dc.creatorJiménez Centeno, Carlos
dc.creatorRixen, Tim
dc.creatorCortés Núñez, Jorge
dc.creatorWild, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-27T15:50:15Z
dc.date.available2018-07-27T15:50:15Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-24
dc.identifier.citationhttps://peerj.com/articles/1434/
dc.identifier.issn2376-5992
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/75296
dc.descriptionhttps://peerj.com/articles/1434/#supp-1 https://peerj.com/articles/1434/#supplemental-informationes_ES
dc.description.abstractSeasonal upwelling at the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica offers the opportunity to investigate the effects of pronounced changes in key water parameters on fine-scale dynamics of local coral reef communities. This study monitored benthic community composition at Matapalo reef (10.539°N, 85.766°W) by weekly observations of permanent benthic quadrats from April 2013 to April 2014. Monitoring was accompanied by surveys of herbivore abundance and biomass and measurements of water temperature and inorganic nutrient concentrations. Findings revealed that the reef-building corals Pocillopora spp. exhibited an exceptional rapid increase from 22 to 51% relative benthic cover. By contrast, turf algae cover decreased from 63 to 24%, resulting in a corresponding increase in crustose coralline algae cover. The macroalga Caulerpa sertularioides covered up to 15% of the reef in April 2013, disappeared after synchronized gamete release in May, and subsequently exhibited slow regrowth. Parallel monitoring of influencing factors suggest that C. sertularioides cover was mainly regulated by their reproductive cycle, while that of turf algae was likely controlled by high abundances of herbivores. Upwelling events in February and March 2014 decreased mean daily seawater temperatures by up to 7 °C and increased nutrient concentrations up to 5- (phosphate) and 16-fold (nitrate) compared to mean values during the rest of the year. Changes in benthic community composition did not appear to correspond to the strong environmental changes, but rather shifted from turf algae to hard coral dominance over the entire year of observation. The exceptional high dynamic over the annual observation period encourages further research on the adaptation potential of coral reefs to environmental variability.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipLeibniz Association/[]//Alemaniaes_ES
dc.language.isoen_USes_ES
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.sourcePeerJ 3:e1434es_ES
dc.subjectCoral reefes_ES
dc.subjectCommunity dynamicses_ES
dc.subjectPhase shiftes_ES
dc.subjectUpwellinges_ES
dc.subjectEastern Tropical Pacifices_ES
dc.subjectCosta Ricaes_ES
dc.subjectGulf of Papagayoes_ES
dc.subject577.789 286 6 Ecología de arrecifeses_ES
dc.titleDynamics in benthic community composition and influencing factors in an upwelling-exposed coral reef on the Pacific coast of Costa Ricaes_ES
dc.typeartículo original
dc.identifier.doi10.7717/peerj.1434
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Básicas::Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR)es_ES


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