caa a22 4500 445819901 CHVBK 20180317145241.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00338-011-0804-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00338-011-0804-9 Increased sea level promotes coral cover on shallow reef flats in the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean [Elektronische Daten] [B. Brown, R. Dunne, N. Phongsuwan, P. Somerfield] Sea level in the Indian Ocean is subject to considerable temporal and spatial variabilities. During the period 1960-2009 at Phuket, Thailand, in the NE Indian Ocean, mean sea level increased by 2.7mm y−1. Regular monitoring of coral cover on fringing reef flats at Phuket since 1979 revealed a sensitive response of this habitat to both transient sea-level depressions and sea-level elevation. Since 1987 when more frequent sampling began, coral cover was positively correlated with the mean sea level experienced over the preceding months. Changing mean sea level explained a high proportion of the observed variation in cover, with overall increasing sea levels and a lack of negative sea-level anomalies promoting cover on the outer reef flats. Concomitantly, there have been no changes in reef community structure or any apparent shifts in zonation patterns across the reef. While future benefits of continued increases in mean sea level on reef flats in the region will be constrained by the frequency and intensity of sea-level depressions associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole, and bleaching events, the overall picture for these shallow reefs is a positive one as they respond to increasing sea level and show rapid recovery from environmental disturbances. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Sea-level rise nationallicence Coral nationallicence Reef flats nationallicence Indian Ocean nationallicence Brown B. School of Biology, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut Dunne R. West Briscoe, Baldersdale, Barnard Castle, Co., DL12 9UP, Durham, UK aut Phongsuwan N. Phuket Biological Center, PO Box 60, 83000, Phuket, Thailand aut Somerfield P. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, West Hoe, PL1 3DH, Plymouth, UK aut Coral Reefs Springer-Verlag 30/4(2011-12-01), 867-878 0722-4028 30:4<867 2011 30 338 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-011-0804-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-011-0804-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown B. School of Biology, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dunne R. West Briscoe, Baldersdale, Barnard Castle, Co., DL12 9UP, Durham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Phongsuwan N. Phuket Biological Center, PO Box 60, 83000, Phuket, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Somerfield P. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, West Hoe, PL1 3DH, Plymouth, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Coral Reefs Springer-Verlag 30/4(2011-12-01), 867-878 0722-4028 30:4<867 2011 30 338 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer