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Coral reef ecology

the region-wide loss of three-dimensional structure on coral reefs as reef-building corals die and their skeletons erode.

In coral reef ecology, reef flattening refers to the region-wide loss of three-dimensional structure on coral reefs as reef-building corals die and their skeletons erode. This meaning comes from Alvarez-Filip (2009) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Alvarez-Filip, L., Dulvy, N. K., Gill, J. A., Côté, I. M., & Watkinson, A. R. (2009). Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1669), 3019-3025. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0339

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