Recruitment Variability of Coral Reef Sessile Communities of the Far North Great Barrier Reef

One of the key components in assessing marine sessile organism demography is determining recruitment patterns to benthic habitats. An analysis of serially deployed recruitment tiles across depth (6 and 12 m), seasons (summer and winter) and space (meters to kilometres) was used to quantify recruitme...

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Published in:PloS one 2016-04, Vol.11 (4), p.e0153184-e0153184
Main Authors: Luter, Heidi M, Duckworth, Alan R, Wolff, Carsten W, Evans-Illidge, Elizabeth, Whalan, Steve
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algae
Analysis
Australia
Benthic environment
Benthic zone
Biology and Life Sciences
Coral Reefs
Corals
Demography
Earth Sciences
Ecology
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Environmental aspects
Larval development
Marine ecology
Measuring instruments
Population
Population ecology
Protection and preservation
Recruitment
Science
Sponges
Stony corals
Studies
Summer
Taxa
Taxonomy
Temporal variability
Temporal variations
Tiles
Variability
Winter
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Summary:One of the key components in assessing marine sessile organism demography is determining recruitment patterns to benthic habitats. An analysis of serially deployed recruitment tiles across depth (6 and 12 m), seasons (summer and winter) and space (meters to kilometres) was used to quantify recruitment assemblage structure (abundance and percent cover) of corals, sponges, ascidians, algae and other sessile organisms from the northern sector of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Polychaetes were most abundant on recruitment titles, reaching almost 50% of total recruitment, yet covered
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0153184