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Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volume 55, 2024

A Renaissance of Atoll Ecology

Abstract

The approximately 320 atolls of the world, scattered across the tropical oceanic basins, constitute a unique type of ecosystem in that they are each an integrated unit consisting of island, coral reef, and lagoon components. Atolls have a complex geology, ecology, and biogeography, which can be fully appreciated only by transcending the classic boundary thinking of marine and terrestrial realms. The atolls we observe today were shaped by Quaternary sea-level fluctuations, which imposed strong environmental filters on their communities. As entirely biogenic, reef-borne structures, the islands of atolls depend upon marine productivity, which catalyzes island community assembly. Island species communities exist in complex dynamic equilibria with the surrounding oceanographic conditions. Energy fluxes and element cycles of the atoll system readily cross habitat boundaries and create a productive, diverse, and biomass-rich ecosystem on land and underwater. Past human disturbances and future global change put atolls at the forefront of conservation and ecological restoration.

Keyword(s): assembly, biogeography, Indo-Pacific, island biology, land–sea connectivity, reef island
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A Renaissance of Atoll Ecology
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