Katherine Crabill

Katherine Crabill

Jan 03, 2018

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Literature Review

It all started with a crazy idea of wanting to discover what kind of reef ecosystems exist in New Zealand. To do so, the first step was to dive into the literature to see what already existed. To keep from getting too distracted by squirrel articles, I conducted a systematic review of literature using four key terms: (a) Reef diversity; (b) Reef succession; (c) Scleractinia coral; and (d) Biodiversity. I narrowed the parameters of the search to include: (a) the four key terms; (b) publication in a peer reviewed journal; (c) publication between January, 2012 and November, 2017; and (d) accessible through a search of the Evans Library databases at Texas A&M University. The first column in the table below identifies a key term. The second column identifies additional key terms used in conducting the review of literature. The third column contains the article count for each search conducted through the databases at Evans Library. I reviewed the articles that first popped up in multiple key term searches. As the article searches returned less than 40 articles, I started looking at these articles for content. In this initial literature review I found 6 key articles to inform the beginning of this project.


Key termAdditional key term(s)No. of articles
Reef diversity
1,779
Reef succession
68
Scleractinia coral
1,189
Biodiversity
160,354
Reef diversityReef succession9

Scleractinia coral32

Biodiversity324
Reef successionScleractinia coral1

Biodiversity3
Scleractinia coralBiodiversity36
Reef diversityReef succession, Scleractinia coral1
Reef diversityReef succession, Biodiversity1
Reef successionScleractinia coral, Biodiversity1


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  • Dane Bozeman
    Dane BozemanBacker
    Amazing how little is known about these elements.
    Jan 19, 2018

About This Project

The Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand reef communities have been exposed to warmer than average temperatures over the past 30 years. Dramatic changes in temperature stress coral, making them more susceptible to diseases and invasive species. The goal of this project is to identify the coral, diseases and invasive species present and the maturity stages at sites throughout the Islands. This will allow us to add knowledge about the state of the reef and compare them to other global ecosystems.

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