We are excited to invite you to submit oral presentations and posters to the following International Coral Reef Symposium session: Coral Reef Structural Dynamics and Complexity: Accretion versus Bioerosion and Dissolution (Session 19).
Session Description: Coral reefs are three-dimensional structures built and continually reshaped through a complex interplay of physical, chemical and biological processes. Rates and forms of calcium carbonate production, erosion and dissolution, accumulation and transport, and physical loss and external disturbance determine structural complexity, structural resilience and net reef growth, key attributes upon which all reef ecosystem services depend. These processes are sensitive to climate change and local stressors, yet our understanding of the impact of these stressors, operating alone and in tandem, on reef structure and complexity as well as the ecological consequences thereof, remains limited. This session brings together scientists who study and measure the different aspects of reef structural complexity and consequences thereof, using oceanographic, sedimentological, chemical and ecological tools and perspectives. We invite papers that include, but are not restricted to 1) estimates of reef carbonate budgets and the impact of local stressors and global change, 2) methods for quantifying carbonate budgets (e.g., field-based hydrochemical, census methods, laboratory, and modeling), 3) studies of bioerosion, dissolution, and reef loss, 4) methods for analyzing 3D complexity of reefs (e.g., underwater mapping tools, photogrammy, and long-term datasets), 5) the effect of 3D structural complexity, and loss thereof, on reef biota, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services, and 6) links between reef accretion-erosion rates, carbonate budgets, and reef structural complexity. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, 15 January 2016; manuscripts for the proceedings may be sent until Friday 22 January. For information on abstract submissions: www.sgmeet.com/icrs2016/abstractinfo.asp Session Co-Chairs: Nyssa Silbiger, University of California, Irvine Chris Perry, University of Exeter Alice Rogers, University of Queensland Will Figueira, University of Sydney Andreas Andersson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Bradley Eyre, Southern Cross University Tyler Cyronak, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Anne Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fraser Januchowski-Hartley, University of Exeter Thomas DeCarlo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Yves-Marie Bozec, University of Queensland Victor Ticzon, University of The Philippines, Los Banos Manuel Gonzalez Rivero, University of Queensland Renata Ferrari, University of Sydney -- ********************************** Nyssa Silbiger, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 415 Steinhaus Hall University of California Irvine, California 92697-2525 http://nyssasilbiger.com
