Population Dynamics of the Reef Crisis

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.

• Introduction: Population dynamics of the reef crisisBernhard Riegl1. Population dynamics of the reef crisis: Consequences of the growing human populationBernhard Riegl and Peter W. Glynn2. Projected shifts in coral size structure in the AnthropoceneChiara Pisapia, Peter J. Edmunds, Holly V. Moeller, Bernhard Riegl, Mike McWilliam, Christopher D. Wells and Morgan S. Pratchett3. Population dynamics of diseased corals: Effects of a Shut Down Reaction outbreak in Puerto Rican Acropora cervicornisAlex E. Mercado-Molina, Alberto M. Sabat and Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado4. Spatial and temporal differences in Acropora cervicornis colony size and healthElizabeth A. Goergen, Kathleen Semon Lunz and David S. Gilliam5. Population dynamics and growth rates of free-living mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in sediment-stressed reefs of SingaporeRian Prasetia, Zi Wei Lim, Aaron Teo, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya and Peter A. Todd6. Population fluctuations of the fungiid coral Cycloseris curvata, Galápagos Islands, EcuadorJoshua S. Feingold and Brandon Brulé7. Considering the rates of growth in two taxa of coral across Pacific islandsStuart 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. Zgliczynski8. Biophysical model of coral population connectivity in the Arabian/Persian GulfGeórgenes Cavalcante, Filipe Vieira, Jonas Mortensen, Radhouane Ben-Hamadou, Pedro Range, Elizabeth Goergen, Edmo Campos and Bernhard Riegl9. Larval connectivity and water quality explain spatial distribution of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks across the Great Barrier ReefMatthews S, Mellin C and Pratchett M10. COTSMod: A spatially explicit metacommunity model of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish and coral recoveryS. Matthews, K. Shoemaker, M.S. Pratchett and C. Mellin11. Coral community life histories and population dynamics driven by seascape bathymetry and temperature variabilityT.R. McClanahan12. The timing and causality of ecological shifts on Caribbean reefsWilliam 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. Côté13. The rise of octocoral forests on Caribbean reefsHoward R. Lasker, Lorenzo Bramanti, Georgios Tsounis and Peter J. Edmunds14. Octocoral populations and connectivity in continental Ecuador and Galápagos, Eastern PacificSascha C.C. Steiner, Priscilla Martínez, Fernando Rivera, Mathew Johnston and Bernhard Riegl15. A tropical eastern Pacific invasive brittle star species (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) reaches southeastern FloridaPeter W. Glynn, Renata Alitto, Joshua Dominguez, Ana B. Christensen, Phillip Gillette, Nicolas Martinez, Bernhard M. Riegl and Kyle Dettloff