A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals
ABSTRACT Among disturbance events to coral reef ecosystems, ship groundings can be among the most acute due to the physical damage they cause to coral reef habitats. Following ship groundings, monitoring studies show that some reefs recover whereas others retain changes in coral community structure...
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| author | Thomas M. DeCarlo Leticia Cavole Gabriel Castro‐Falcón Vinícius Ribau Mendes Guilherme Ortigara Longo Natan S. Pereira Cristiano Mazur Chiessi |
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| description | ABSTRACT Among disturbance events to coral reef ecosystems, ship groundings can be among the most acute due to the physical damage they cause to coral reef habitats. Following ship groundings, monitoring studies show that some reefs recover whereas others retain changes in coral community structure for at least a decade. Thus, the recovery timescales following groundings are variable, but the general paradigm is that reef communities will begin on a trajectory toward recovery to the pre‐disturbance state. Here, we report several lines of evidence of a 100+ year old ship grounding in northeastern Brazil. Strikingly, the ship grounding led to a semi‐permanent sand channel in the reef that has not substantially trended toward recovery. Our observations support the notion that acute disturbance on coral reefs can cause structural changes that may never return to the pre‐disturbance conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-41e28451f5424ed6aa8f272f58c75c8b2025-08-20T03:35:24ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582025-07-01157n/an/a10.1002/ece3.71857A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among CoralsThomas M. DeCarlo0Leticia Cavole1Gabriel Castro‐Falcón2Vinícius Ribau Mendes3Guilherme Ortigara Longo4Natan S. Pereira5Cristiano Mazur Chiessi6Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana USASchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities University of São Paulo São Paulo BrazilSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities University of São Paulo São Paulo BrazilInstitute of Marine Science Federal University of São Paulo Santos BrazilMarine Ecology Laboratory, Department of Oceanography and Limnology Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte Natal BrazilPGQA, Department of Exact and Earth Science State University of Bahia Salvador BrazilSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities University of São Paulo São Paulo BrazilABSTRACT Among disturbance events to coral reef ecosystems, ship groundings can be among the most acute due to the physical damage they cause to coral reef habitats. Following ship groundings, monitoring studies show that some reefs recover whereas others retain changes in coral community structure for at least a decade. Thus, the recovery timescales following groundings are variable, but the general paradigm is that reef communities will begin on a trajectory toward recovery to the pre‐disturbance state. Here, we report several lines of evidence of a 100+ year old ship grounding in northeastern Brazil. Strikingly, the ship grounding led to a semi‐permanent sand channel in the reef that has not substantially trended toward recovery. Our observations support the notion that acute disturbance on coral reefs can cause structural changes that may never return to the pre‐disturbance conditions.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71857aerial imagerycoral reefship groundingshipwreck |
| spellingShingle | Thomas M. DeCarlo Leticia Cavole Gabriel Castro‐Falcón Vinícius Ribau Mendes Guilherme Ortigara Longo Natan S. Pereira Cristiano Mazur Chiessi A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals Ecology and Evolution aerial imagery coral reef ship grounding shipwreck |
| title | A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals |
| title_full | A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals |
| title_fullStr | A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals |
| title_short | A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals |
| title_sort | ship grounding over a century ago left a lasting channel among corals |
| topic | aerial imagery coral reef ship grounding shipwreck |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71857 |
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