ReefBudget
ReefBudget
ReefBudget is an online resource and methodology designed to support both research and management applications focused on quantifying and monitoring the carbonate budgets of tropical coral reefs. The method employs field-based census methodologies to determine the abundance of key carbonate producing and eroding taxa. It then generates estimates of the rates at which these processes operate and their contributions to net carbonate budgets.
About ReefBudget
This site provides details of the ReefBudget methodology, copies of the field survey sheets and links to the relevant Excel data entry spreadsheets required to calculate rates of carbonate production and erosion. The spreadsheets are pre-set with relevant regional metrics on calcification and erosion rates for different taxa, but these can be modified as necessary by the user where local or other relevant datasets exist. Compilations of currently available supporting data on growth and erosion rates are provided and regularly updated.
Development of the methodology was originally funded by The Leverhulme Trust, with subsequent modifications supported through funding from the Royal Society and the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science.
To read more about the project, download the background to project (.pdf).
Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge ReefBudget in any publications resulting from the use of this methodology as follows:
Caribbean method
Perry CT and Lange ID (2019) ReefBudget Caribbean v2: online resource and methodology. Retrieved from http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/reefbudget/
Indo-Pacific method
Perry CT, Lange I, Januchowski-Hartley FA (2018) ReefBudget Indo Pacific: online resource and methodology. Retrieved from http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/reefbudget/
Contact
For further details about ReefBudget or to contribute/notify us of additional available datasets please contact Chris Perry (E-mail: c.perry@exeter.ac.uk) or Ines Lange (E-mail: i.lange@exeter.ac.uk)
Relevant Publications
Lange ID, Razak TB, Perry CT, Maulana PB, Prasetya ME, Irwan, Lamont TAC (2024) Coral restoration can drive rapid reef carbonate budget recovery. Current Biology 34:1–8. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.009
Lange I.D., Perry C.T., Stuhr M. (2022). Recovery trends of reef carbonate budgets at remote coral atolls 6 years post-bleaching. Limnology & Oceanography. doi: 10.1002/lno.12066.
Molina-Hernández, A., González-Barrios, F., Perry C.T., Álvarez-Filip, L. (2020) Two decades of carbonate budget change on shifted coral reef assemblages: are these reefs being locked into low net budget states? Proceedings Royal Society B. 287: 20202305. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2305
Lange I.D., Perry C.T., Morgan K.M., Roche R., Benkwitt C.E., Graham N.A. (2020). Site-level variation in parrotfish grazing and bioerosion as a function of species-specific feeding metrics. Diversity 12(10):379. doi: 10.3390/d12100379
Perry, C.T., Morgan, K.M., Lange, I.D., & Yarlett, R.T. (2020). Bleaching-driven reef community shifts drive pulses of increased reef sediment generation. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), 192153. doi: 10.1098/rsos.192153
Lange, I. D., Perry, C. T., & Alvarez-Filip, L. (2020). Carbonate budgets as indicators of functional reef “health”: A critical review of data underpinning census-based methods and current knowledge gaps. Ecological Indicators, 110, 105857. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105857
Lange, I. D., & Perry, C. T. (2019). Bleaching impacts on carbonate production in the Chagos Archipelago: influence of functional coral groups on carbonate budget trajectories. Coral Reefs, 38(4), 619-624. doi: 10.1007/s00338-019-01784-x
Perry C.T., Alvarez-Filip L., Graham N.A., Mumby P.J., Wilson S.K., Kench P.S., Manzello D.P., Morgan K.M., Slangen A.B., Thomson D.P., Januchowski-Hartley F., et al. (2018) Loss of coral reef growth capacity to track future increases in sea level. Nature 558, 396-400; doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0194-z
Perry C.T., Morgan K.M. (2017) Bleaching drives collapse in reef carbonate budgets and reef growth potential on southern Maldives reefs. Scientific reports 13, 40581; doi: 10.1038/srep40581
Perry C.T., Murphy G.N., Graham N.A.J., Wilson S.K., Januchowski-Hartley F.A., East H. (2015) Remote coral reefs can sustain high growth potential and may match future sea-level trends. Scientific Reports 5, 18289; doi: 10.1038/srep18289.
Perry C.T., Steneck R.S., Murphy G.N., Kench P.S., Edinger E.N., Smithers S.G., Mumby P.J. (2015) Regional-scale dominance of non-framework building corals on Caribbean reefs affects carbonate production and future reef growth. Global Change Biology 21: 1153-1164; doi: 10.1111/gcb.12792
Perry C.T., Murphy G.N., Kench P.S., Edinger E.N., Smithers S.G., Steneck R.S., Mumby P.J. (2014) Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergence of reef bioeroders as critical controls on present and future reef growth potential. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281: 20142018; doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2018
Perry C.T., Murphy G.N., Kench P.S., Smithers S.G., Edinger E.N., Steneck R.S. and Mumby P.J. (2013) Caribbean-wide decline in carbonate production threatens coral reef growth. Nature Communications 4: 1402; doi: 10.1038/ncomms2409
Perry C.T., Edinger E.N., Kench, P.S., Mumby P.J., Murphy G., Steneck, R.S. and Smithers S.G. (2012) Estimating rates of biologically driven coral reef framework production and erosion: a new census-based carbonate budget methodology and applications to the reefs of Bonaire. Coral Reefs. 31: 853-868; doi: 10.1007/s00338-012-0901-4
Caribbean Resources
Caribbean Methodology
- ReefBudget Caribbean V2 methodology June 2024 (.pdf)
- ReefBudget Caribbean V2 methods June 2019 ? Spanish version (.pdf)
Caribbean Field Survey Sheets
- Benthic survey sheet V2 (.pdf)
- Parrotfish survey sheet V2 (.pdf)
- Urchin survey sheet (.pdf)
- Benthic survey sheet V2 (.pdf)
Caribbean Data Entry Spreadsheets
- Caribbean carbonate production template V2.3 (.xlsx)
- Caribbean parrotfish template V2 (.xlsx)
- Urchin data entry template V2 (.xlsx)
Caribbean Supporting Datasets
- Caribbean Coral and CCA calcification database (.xls)
- Caribbean Parrotfish database (.xlsx)
- Caribbean Urchin database (.xslx)
- Caribbean Parrotfish sediment reworking database_v1.1 (xlsx)
Summary of Caribbean ReefBudget Datasets
Original ReefBudget Methodology Files
- ReefBudget methodology (.pdf)
- Benthic survey sheet (.pdf)
- Parrotfish survey sheet (.pdf)
- Boring sponge survey sheet (.pdf)
- Boring sponge survey sheet ? NEW METHODOLOGY (.pdf)
- Benthic data entry (0-5m) (.xls)
- Benthic data entry (5-10) (.xls)
- Parrotfish data entry (.xls)
- Urchin data entry (.xls)
- Boring sponge data entry (.xls)
- Boring sponge data entry ? NEW METHODOLOGY (.xls)
- Microbioerosion data entry (.xls)
Indo-Pacific Resources
Indo-Pacific Methodology
Indo-Pacific Field Survey Sheets
Indo-Pacific Data Entry Spreadsheets
- Indo-Pacific Carbonate Production v 1.3
- Indo-Pacific Parrotfish Erosion v 1.4
- Indo-Pacific Urchin Erosion v 1.3
Indo-Pacific Supporting Datasets
Eastern Tropical Pacific Resources
Eastern Tropical Pacific Data Entry Spreadsheets
Eastern Tropical Pacific Supporting Datasets