Population Dynamics of the Reef Crisis, Volume 87 in the Advances in Marine Biology series, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Chapters in this new release cover SCTL disease and coral population dynamics in S-Florida, Spatial dynamics of juvenile corals in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, Surprising stability in sea urchin populations following shifts to algal dominance on heavily bleached reefs, Biophysical model of population connectivity in the Persian Gulf, Population dynamics of 20-year decline in clownfish anemones on coral reefs at Eilat, northern Red Sea, and much more.
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
Dr. Bernhard Riegl is professor at the Nova Southeastern University Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. He is the associate director of the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI). He received the MSc degree from the University of Vienna (Austria) and the PhD degree from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He also received the habilitation at Karl-Franzens-University Graz (Austria). He was editor of the international scientific journals Coral Reefs and Sedimentology, and is editor of the book series Coral Reefs of the World and an assoc editor at the journal Scientific Reports.
