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In many tropical western Atlantic reefs, ecological decline has reduced carbonate production, yielding near-neutral or negative budgets. Yet some reefs retain high coral cover and, theoretically, should also have high net positive budgets, yet often show modest carbonate accumulation. We used the remote reef of Cayo Arenas in the Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico, to test whether in reefs under suboptimal (variable) environmental conditions, high coral production is offset by robust bioeroder communities, producing neutral budgets. At 14 sites, we quantified carbonate producers and bioeroders to estimate gross production, bioerosion and net budget states. Despite relatively high live coral cover, mean net carbonate budgets did not differ significantly from a neutral (zero) state, despite a positive net budget (0.7 \u00b1 0.5 SE kg CaCO3 m\u22122 yr\u22121) and substantial site-to-site variability (range: \u22122.3 to 4.3 kg CaCO3 m\u22122 yr\u22121). Crucially, this neutrality arose not from depressed biological activity (as in degraded reefs) but from an active equilibrium: elevated carbonate production coupled with substantial bioerosion. These reefs, therefore, represent a contemporary, functional reef state in net stasis. Distinguishing active-neutral reefs, where both production and bioerosion are elevated, from impoverishment-neutral reefs, where both are suppressed, is critical for predicting reef trajectories under environmental change and for targeting management, although near-stasis emerging from high carbonate turnover can appear functionally intact yet operate with limited buffering capacity against net carbonate loss.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1098\/rsos.260604","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,21]],"date-time":"2026-10-21T00:11:38Z","timestamp":1792541498000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The paradox of neutral carbonate budgets on coral-dominated reefs"],"prefix":"10.1098","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0513-0918","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Cabrera-Rivera","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Unidad Acad\u00e9mica de Sistemas Arrecifales, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnolog\u00eda, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico 1 , Puerto Morelos, M\u00e9xico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2188-6827","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Didier","family":"de Bakker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geography, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter 2 , Exeter, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0581-441X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana L.","family":"Molina-Hern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Unidad Acad\u00e9mica de Sistemas Arrecifales, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnolog\u00eda, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico 1 , Puerto Morelos, M\u00e9xico"},{"name":"Programa de Investigaci\u00f3n Espacial en Ambientes Costeros y Marinos, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, UMDI-Sisal 3 , Sisal, Yucat\u00e1n, M\u00e9xico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-0624-0394","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco","family":"Medell\u00edn-Maldonado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biodiversity and Reef Conservation Laboratory, Unidad Acad\u00e9mica de Sistemas Arrecifales, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnolog\u00eda, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico 1 , Puerto Morelos, M\u00e9xico"},{"name":"Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanol\u00f3gicas, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Baja California 4 , Ensenada, M\u00e9xico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4854-7120","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rodolfo","family":"Rioja-Nieto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratorio de An\u00e1lisis Espacial de Zonas Costeras, Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigaci\u00f3n-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico 5 , M\u00e9rida, Yucat\u00e1n, M\u00e9xico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3832-2972","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexis E. 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