Long-term natural ecological consequences of disturbance on coral reefs: the benthic foraminifera perspective

珊瑚礁干扰的长期自然生态后果：底栖有孔虫的观点

• 批准号: LX0775855
• 负责人: Prof John Pandolfi
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage - International
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LX0775855
• 关键词: Long; term; natural; ecological; consequences

The tropical coastline of Australia encompasses world-renowned coral reefs (Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Marine Park). Even these reefs are not pristine and are increasingly susceptible to disturbance from human impact. The long-term ecological effects of disturbance on reef communities cannot be experimentally determined; but natural experiments from the fossil record provide mechanisms to ensure that managers of Australia's reefs have critical information on how past disturbance frequency and intensity has affected coral reef communities. This information will help ensure the continuation of ecosystem goods and services from Australia's high diversity coral reefs.

澳大利亚的热带海岸线拥有世界著名的珊瑚礁（大堡礁和宁加洛海洋公园）。 即使这些珊瑚礁也不是原始的，并且越来越容易受到人类影响的干扰。 干扰对珊瑚礁群落的长期生态影响无法通过实验确定；但化石记录的自然实验提供了机制，确保澳大利亚珊瑚礁的管理者掌握有关过去的干扰频率和强度如何影响珊瑚礁群落的关键信息。 这些信息将有助于确保澳大利亚高度多样化的珊瑚礁的生态系统产品和服务的持续性。