Tries B. Razak, Ravienkha R. Budaya, Frensly D. Hukom, Beginer Subhan, Fathia K. Assakina, Shifa Fauziah, Haifa H. Jasmin, Rindah Talitha Vida, Cut Aja Gita Alisa, Rizya Ardiwijaya, Alan T. White, Sterling B. Tebbett
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Abstract
Most comparative studies assessing reef health focus on living hard coral cover as the key metric. In Indonesia, in situ monitoring of coral cover has been ongoing for over five decades. However, as monitoring data and research findings are predominantly published in the local language (Bahasa Indonesia), local data often escape global attention, resulting in Indonesian coral reefs receiving less scientific attention despite accounting for ~ 15% of all coral reef area globally. Here, we systematically compiled both globally and locally published data on coral cover across Indonesia to assess changes over recent decades. We analysed 7,614 data entries extracted from 621 publications and found that the majority (79.1%) of the publications were written in Bahasa Indonesia, constituting 63.4% of the total data entries. Our dataset revealed limited evidence of net declines in coral cover over the last three decades (1994–2022). There was also no clear relationship between coral cover and human density, as well as with the thirteen environmental/anthropogenic drivers examined. We discuss several factors that may contribute to this lack of detectable large-scale change including: recent data potentially representing a ‘shifted baseline’; the ‘averaging out’ of localised changes in coral cover dynamics at a broad scale; sampling biases; and/or the potential resilience of Indonesian coral reefs compared to other regions. This study highlights the wealth of accessible local coral reef data published in languages other than English and emphasises the importance of using such data to enhance our understanding of the long-term dynamics of coral reef ecosystems worldwide.
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Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Coral Reef Society, presents multidisciplinary literature across the broad fields of reef studies, publishing analytical and theoretical papers on both modern and ancient reefs. These encourage the search for theories about reef structure and dynamics, and the use of experimentation, modeling, quantification and the applied sciences.
Coverage includes such subject areas as population dynamics; community ecology of reef organisms; energy and nutrient flows; biogeochemical cycles; physiology of calcification; reef responses to natural and anthropogenic influences; stress markers in reef organisms; behavioural ecology; sedimentology; diagenesis; reef structure and morphology; evolutionary ecology of the reef biota; palaeoceanography of coral reefs and coral islands; reef management and its underlying disciplines; molecular biology and genetics of coral; aetiology of disease in reef-related organisms; reef responses to global change, and more.