Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery

TM Kenyon, C Doropoulos, K Wolfe… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With rubble predicted to increase on coral reefs worldwide, we review the physical,
biological, and ecological dynamics of rubble beds, with a focus on how rubble generation …

Microbes and mass extinctions: paleoenvironmental distribution of microbialites during times of biotic crisis

SA Mata, DJ Bottjer - Geobiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread development of microbialites characterizes the substrate and ecological
response during the aftermath of two of the 'big five'mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic …

Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans

K Heindel, D Birgel, B Brunner, V Thiel, H Westphal… - Chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
The occurrence of microbialites in post-glacial coral reefs has been interpreted to reflect an
ecosystem response to environmental change. The greater thickness of microbialites in …

Pendant bioconstructions cemented by microbial carbonate in submerged marine caves (Holocene, SE Sicily)

A Guido, K Heindel, D Birgel, A Rosso… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
Unusual pendant bioconstructions occur within two submerged caves in the Plemmirio
Marine Protected Area, south of Syracuse (SE Sicily). These cm-to dm-sized …

Microbialites in last glacial maximum and deglacial reefs of the Great Barrier Reef (IODP Expedition 325, NE Australia)

JC Braga, Á Puga-Bernabéu, K Heindel… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbialites are volumetrically abundant components in Last Glacial Maximum and
deglacial reefs in the Australian Great Barrier Reef sampled by IODP Expedition 325 in 34 …

Microbial mat controls on infaunal abundance and diversity in modern marine microbialites

LG Tarhan, NJ Planavsky, CE Laumer, JF Stolz… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microbialites are the most abundant macrofossils of the Precambrian. Decline in microbialite
abundance and diversity during the terminal Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic has …

Variation in deglacial coralgal assemblages and their paleoenvironmental significance: IODP Expedition 310,“Tahiti Sea Level”

E Abbey, JM Webster, JC Braga, K Sugihara… - Global and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fossil reefs are valuable recorders of paleoenvironmental changes during the last
deglaciation, and detailed characterizations of coralgal assemblages can improve …

Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria

K Heindel, D Birgel, J PECKMANN, H Kuhnert… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract During IODP Expedition 310 (Tahiti Sea Level), drowned Pleistocene–Holocene
barrier-reef terraces were drilled on the slope of the volcanic island. The deglacial reef …

Cryptic biostalactites in a submerged karst cave of the Belize Barrier Reef revisited: Pendant bioconstructions cemented by microbial micrite

E Gischler, K Heindel, D Birgel, B Brunner… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microbial carbonates are important components of postglacial tropical coral reef frameworks.
Curious calcium carbonate protrusions in a submarine karst cave in the Belize Barrier Reef …

Millennial‐scale ocean acidification and late Quaternary decline of cryptic bacterial crusts in tropical reefs

R Riding, L Liang, JC Braga - Geobiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification by atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased almost continuously since
the last glacial maximum (LGM), 21 000 years ago. It is expected to impair tropical reef …