Pandolfi John M, Jackson Jeremy B C
Ecol Lett. 2006 Jul;9(7):818-26. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00933.x.
The recent mass mortality of Caribbean reef corals dramatically altered reef community structure and begs the question of the past stability and persistence of coral assemblages before human disturbance began. We report within habitat stability in coral community composition in the Pleistocene fossil record of Barbados for at least 95,000 years despite marked variability in global sea level and climate. Results were consistent for surveys of both common and rare taxa. Comparison of Pleistocene and modern community structure shows that Recent human impacts have changed coral community structure in ways not observed in the preceding 220,000 years.
加勒比珊瑚礁近期的大规模死亡极大地改变了珊瑚礁群落结构，并引发了一个问题：在人类干扰开始之前，珊瑚群落过去的稳定性和持久性如何。我们报告了巴巴多斯更新世化石记录中珊瑚群落组成在至少95000年里的栖息地稳定性，尽管全球海平面和气候存在显著变化。对常见和稀有分类群的调查结果是一致的。更新世和现代群落结构的比较表明，近期人类影响已经以过去22万年未观察到的方式改变了珊瑚群落结构。
