Empty Niches after Extinctions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals

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• 作者：Carlos Prada¹ ; ¹² ; ¹⁴ ; ^{pradac@si.edu} ; Bishoy Hanna¹ ; Ann F. Budd² ; Cheryl M. Woodley³ ; Jeremy Schmutz⁴ ; Jane Grimwood⁴ ; Roberto Iglesias-Prieto¹ ; ⁵ ; John M. Pandolfi⁶ ; ⁷ ; Don Levitan⁸ ; Kenneth G. Johnson⁹ ; Nancy Knowlton¹⁰ ; Hiroaki Kitano¹¹ ; Michael DeGiorgio¹ ; ¹³ ; ^{mxd60@psu.edu} ; Mó ; nica Medina¹ ; ¹⁰ ; ¹² ; ¹³ ; ^{mum55@psu.edu}
• 关键词：coral reefs ; empty niche ; sea level change ; ESA threatened ; genome ; Pleistocene ; Pliocene ; population expansion ; niche partitioning
• 刊名：Current Biology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：5 December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：26
• 期：23
• 页码：3190-3194
• 全文大小：1613 K
• 卷排序：26

文摘

Environmental changes causing extinctions also extirpate variation in extant species Modern corals expanded as they filled empty niches left by extinct niche competitors Corals can rebound from reductions in population size under suitable conditions Conservation studies profit by evaluating variation under proper demographic models