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    Reef accumulation is decoupled from recent degradation in the central and southern Red Sea

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    Authors
    Hammerman, Nicholas M.
    Roff, George
    Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto
    Leonard, Nicole
    Staples, Timothy L.
    Eyal, Gal
    Rossbach, Susann
    Havlik, Michelle Nicole
    Saderne, Vincent
    Zhao, Jian-xin
    Duarte, Carlos M. cc
    Pandolfi, John M.
    KAUST Department
    Marine Science Program
    Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division
    Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
    Date
    2021-10-25
    Online Publication Date
    2021-10-25
    Print Publication Date
    2022-02
    Embargo End Date
    2022-10-23
    Submitted Date
    2021-06-07
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/673005
    
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    Abstract
    Reefs are biogenic structures that result in three-dimensional accumulations of calcium carbonate. Over geological timescales, a positive balance between the production and accumulation of calcium carbonate versus erosional and off-reef transport processes maintains positive net accretion on reefs. Yet, how ecological processes occurring over decadal timescales translate to the accumulation of geological structures is poorly understood, in part due to a lack of studies with detailed time-constrained chronologies of reef accretion over decades to centuries. Here, we combined ecological surveys of living reefs with palaeoecological reconstructions and high-precision radiometric (U-Th) age-dating of fossil reefs represented in both reef sediment cores and surficial dead in situ corals, to reconstruct the history of community composition and carbonate accumulation across the central and southern Saudi Arabian Red Sea throughout the late Holocene. We found that reefs were primarily comprised of thermally tolerant massive Porites colonies, creating a consolidated coral framework, with unconsolidated branching coral rubble accumulating among massive corals on shallow (5–8 m depth) exposed (windward), and gently sloping reef slopes. These unconsolidated reef rubble fields were formed primarily from ex situ Acropora and Pocillopora coral fragments, infilled post deposition by carbonate sands. Bayesian age-depth models revealed a process of punctuated deposition of post-mortem coral fragments transported from adjacent reef environments. That a large portion of Saudi Arabian Red Sea reef slopes is driven by allochthonous deposition (transportation) has important implications for modeling carbonate budgets and reef growth. In addition, a multi-decadal lag exists between the time of death for branching in situ coral and incorporation into the unconsolidated reef rubble. This indicates that recent climate related degradation in the 21st century has not had an immediately negative effect on reef building processes affecting a large portion of the reef area in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea.
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    Hammerman, N. M., Roff, G., Rodriguez-Ramirez, A., Leonard, N., Staples, T. L., Eyal, G., … Pandolfi, J. M. (2021). Reef accumulation is decoupled from recent degradation in the central and southern Red Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 151176. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151176
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    Elsevier BV
    Journal
    Science of The Total Environment
    DOI
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151176
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    https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0048969721062549
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151176
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    Articles; Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division; Red Sea Research Center (RSRC); Marine Science Program

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