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SUBMITTER: McWilliam M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003456 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McWilliam Mike M Pratchett Morgan S MS Hoogenboom Mia O MO Hughes Terry P TP
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200108 1918
The disturbance regimes of ecosystems are changing, and prospects for continued recovery remain unclear. New assemblages with altered species composition may be deficient in key functional traits. Alternatively, important traits may be sustained by species that replace those in decline (response diversity). Here, we quantify the recovery and response diversity of coral assemblages using case studies of disturbance in three locations. Despite return trajectories of coral cover, the original assem ...[more]