Material legacies can degrade resilience: Structure-retaining disturbances promote regime shifts on coral reefs.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4006
Abstract: Standing dead structures of habitat-forming organisms (e.g., dead trees, coral skeletons, oyster shells) killed by a disturbance are material legacies that can affect ecosystem recovery processes. Many ecosystems are subject to different types of disturbance… read more here.
Keywords: resilience; regime shifts; shifts coral; material legacies ... See more keywords