Christopher Doropoulos
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View article: Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases
Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases Open
Introduction Restoring coral reefs through larval enhancement has the potential to scale interventions beyond experimental plots of tens of m 2 . However, the effectiveness of releasing larvae without confinement (“free release”) remains u…
View article: A framework to inform economic valuation of non-use benefits from coral-reef intervention efforts
A framework to inform economic valuation of non-use benefits from coral-reef intervention efforts Open
Healthy coral reefs hold significant value to society, not just from industries such as tourism or fishing, but by their very existence. These so-called ‘non-use benefits’ are increasingly endangered as the health of coral reefs faces esca…
View article: Larval seedboxes: A modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration
Larval seedboxes: A modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration Open
Natural recovery of degraded coral reefs is constrained by low larval recruitment, limiting restoration at ecologically meaningful scales. While propagule‐based approaches have proven effective in plant‐dominated systems, scaling larval re…
View article: Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Open
Demographic rates of juvenile corals are critical to reef recovery, yet their variation across environmental gradients remains understudied. Over three years, we assessed juvenile coral vital rates across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and T…
View article: Scaling up coral spawn collection: Impacts of method and timing on Acropora valida larval quality
Scaling up coral spawn collection: Impacts of method and timing on Acropora valida larval quality Open
Scaling up coral reef restoration to ecologically relevant scales presents a significant challenge during propagule collection. Mass coral spawning events are a vast source of propagules for reef restoration, but these events are typically…
View article: Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Open
Demographic rates of juvenile corals are critical to reef recovery, yet their variation across environmental gradients remains understudied. Over three years, we assessed juvenile coral vital rates across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and T…
View article: Spawning Asynchrony and Mixed Reproductive Strategies in a Common Mass Spawning Coral
Spawning Asynchrony and Mixed Reproductive Strategies in a Common Mass Spawning Coral Open
Understanding strategies of organisms that utilise multiple modes of reproduction presents a complex challenge for evolutionary biologists. The genus Platygyra , a common reef‐building coral with unclear reproductive boundaries among morph…
View article: Larval seedboxes: a modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration
Larval seedboxes: a modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration Open
Natural recovery of degraded coral reefs is constrained by low larval recruitment, limiting restoration at ecologically meaningful scales. While propagule-based approaches have proven effective in plant-dominated systems, scaling larval re…
View article: Proximity and current alignment drives fertilisation success in a broadcast-spawning coral
Proximity and current alignment drives fertilisation success in a broadcast-spawning coral Open
As coral populations decline under climate change and other stressors, surviving corals will become increasingly isolated. While Allee effects that reduce gamete encounters and fertilisation success may lead to reproductive and recruitment…
View article: Optimising fertilisation kinetics models for broadcast spawning corals in the genus <i>Acropora</i>
Optimising fertilisation kinetics models for broadcast spawning corals in the genus <i>Acropora</i> Open
Synchronous spawning is a specialised adaptation to maximise fertilisation success in free spawning sessile invertebrates. There are many factors that drive and limit reproduction in such benthic invertebrates including localised hydrodyna…
View article: Impacts of wind-driven hydrodynamics on the early stages of coral development
Impacts of wind-driven hydrodynamics on the early stages of coral development Open
Coral spawning has evolved to occur during relatively calm hydrodynamic conditions. However, moderate to high surface winds are often present on spawning nights in specific regions, with many unknown impacts to the early life-history stage…
View article: Passive retention of simulated larvae on coral reefs
Passive retention of simulated larvae on coral reefs Open
The extent to which local coral populations are self-sustaining through local recruitment has important implications for managing coral reef systems. However, a lack of understanding has led to overly simplistic representation of this phen…
View article: Going with the flow: Leveraging reef‐scale hydrodynamics for upscaling larval‐based restoration
Going with the flow: Leveraging reef‐scale hydrodynamics for upscaling larval‐based restoration Open
Anthropogenic pressures are impacting coastal marine ecosystems, necessitating large‐scale interventions to accelerate recovery. Propagule‐based restoration holds the potential for restoring shallow coastal systems at hectare scales by har…
View article: The influence of larval retention on coral recruitment
The influence of larval retention on coral recruitment Open
Marine broadcast spawners typically exhibit bipartite life-histories with distinct pelagic larvae and benthic phases. The transition between phases shapes benthic populations, but the rate of larval arrival to a reef is largely unknown due…
View article: Critical thresholds of adult patch density and spacing during coral fertilisation
Critical thresholds of adult patch density and spacing during coral fertilisation Open
Extreme climate events have severe impacts on the ecological functioning of marine ecosystems by causing wide-spread declines in population sizes and, for surviving individuals, limiting the capacity for population recovery through sexual …
View article: Early‐stage coral survivorship using wild larval assemblages on coral seeding devices for reef restoration
Early‐stage coral survivorship using wild larval assemblages on coral seeding devices for reef restoration Open
Following large‐scale disturbances, population recovery is often recruitment limited due to combinations of reduced propagule supply from remnant populations and the hostile state of the disturbed environment. To overcome recruitment limit…
View article: Trajectories and agents of binding in stabilized and unstabilized coral rubble across environmental gradients
Trajectories and agents of binding in stabilized and unstabilized coral rubble across environmental gradients Open
Natural ecosystems are routinely impacted by acute disturbances that generate space for early colonizers. Following disturbances, the interaction strengths of top‐down and bottom‐up factors across environmental gradients influence communit…
View article: Allee effects limit coral fertilization success
Allee effects limit coral fertilization success Open
Coral populations are being progressively thinned by climate change, which elevates the risk of reproductive failure from Allee effects during fertilization. Studies have shown that fertilization success improves during more intense and sy…
View article: Spawning asynchrony and mixed reproductive strategies in a common mass spawning coral
Spawning asynchrony and mixed reproductive strategies in a common mass spawning coral Open
Understanding strategies of organisms that utilise multiple modes of reproduction presents a complex challenge for evolutionary biologists. Platygyra daedalea, a common reef-building coral with unclear reproductive boundaries between morph…
View article: Going with the flow: leveraging reef-scale hydrodynamics for upscaling larval-based restoration
Going with the flow: leveraging reef-scale hydrodynamics for upscaling larval-based restoration Open
Anthropogenic pressures are impacting coastal marine ecosystems, necessitating large-scale interventions to accelerate recovery. Propagule-based restoration holds the potential for restoring shallow coastal systems at hectare scales by har…
View article: Critical thresholds of adult patch size and spacing during coral fertilisation
Critical thresholds of adult patch size and spacing during coral fertilisation Open
Extreme climate events have severe impacts on the ecological functioning of marine ecosystems by causing wide-spread declines in population sizes and, for surviving individuals, limiting the capacity for population recovery through sexual …
View article: Capturing fine-scale coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework
Capturing fine-scale coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework Open
Natural systems exhibit high spatial variability across multiple scales. Models that can capture ecosystem dynamics across space and time by explicitly incorporating major biological mechanisms are crucial, both for management and for ecol…
View article: Optimizing initial stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration
Optimizing initial stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration Open
Mass culturing coral larvae collected from spawn slicks during spawning events and rearing them directly on reefs is an important method for coral reef restoration as it utilizes high genetic diversity and is readily upscaled. Understandin…
View article: High rates of erosion on a wave‐exposed fringing coral reef
High rates of erosion on a wave‐exposed fringing coral reef Open
Erosion is a key process in shaping the physical structure of coral reefs, yet due to erosion being semi‐cryptic and difficult to quantify, information remains limited. Here, we investigate erosional processes along Ningaloo Reef, an exten…
View article: Reproducing within-reef variability in coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework
Reproducing within-reef variability in coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework Open
Reef systems span spatial scales from 10s to 100s and even 1000s of kilometres, with substantial spatial variability across these scales. Managing and predicting the future of coral reefs requires insights into reef functioning at all spat…
View article: Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs Open
Coral reefs are model systems for studies of ecological resilience, with communities generally exhibiting multiple stable states and more resilient regions trending towards a single, coral-dominated, regime. We expand the theory of ecologi…
View article: Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits
Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits Open
Indo-Pacific corals predominantly reproduce using synchronous mass spawning events to maximise fertilisation. However, as disturbances continue to thin population densities, the quantities of gametes released declines and colonies become m…