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Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora

Conservation Letters, 2021
Identifying organisms that play an important role in maintaining ecosystem function is a key aspect of resilience‐based management. For Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), we found that the recovery ability of shallow exposed fore‐reefs is more than 14
Juan C. Ortiz, Rachel J. Pears, Roger Beeden, Jen Dryden, Nicholas H. Wolff, Maria del C. Gomez Cabrera, Peter J Mumby   +6 more
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Altered Coral‐Turf Algae Competition Leads to the Passive Dissolution of Coral Skeletons Under Ocean Acidification

Global Change Biology Communications, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2026.
Under ocean acidification, turf algae are favored over corals, shifting the competition outcome and decreasing coral survival. The local pH microenvironment under the turf, resulting from associated biological activity, drives the dissolution of the coral carbonate skeleton.
Joshua M. Heitzman, Layla Iijima, Guinther Mitushasi, Davide Spatafora, Shigeki Wada, Ben P. Harvey, Haruko Kurihara, Sylvain Agostini   +7 more
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Supervised satellite classification and field validation document endangered Acropora collapse, and identify surviving colonies in Belize

Scientific Reports
Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata have long provided structural complexity to Caribbean reefs, yet they have declined by over 90% in recent decades.
Lisa Greer, Raja Das, Harris Foad, Karl Wirth   +3 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Acropora pruinosa

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017
In this study, the complete mitogenome sequence of stony coral, Acropora pruinosa (Scleractinia), has been decoded for the first time by next generation sequencing and genome assembly.
Peng Tian, Wentao Niu
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Spatial Strategies in Coral Transplantation: A Systematic Review of Clustered Versus Widespread Configurations

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Active coral reef restoration incorporates ecological engineering principles. Yet, the spatial arrangement of transplanted colonies, one of the few design parameters directly controlled by practitioners, remains poorly explored empirically. We conducted a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines to evaluate how clustered (high‐density ...
Dor Shefy, Giovanni Giallongo, Ana De La Torriente Diez, Sergio Rossi   +3 more
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First evidence for backcrossing of F1 hybrids in Acropora corals under sperm competition

Scientific Reports, 2022
Acropora is a species-rich genus of reef-building corals with highly diverse morphologies. Hybridization among intercrossing species potentially influences species diversity within Acropora.
Seiya Kitanobo, Kenji Iwao, Hironobu Fukami, Naoko Isomura, Masaya Morita   +4 more
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Testing a site‐prioritisation framework to maximise survival of seeded corals

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 8, August 2026.
The framework tested can improve the efficiency of seeded‐coral deployments by increasing average survival through site selection for most taxa, thereby reducing the number of deployed spat needed to achieve a target outcome. Species‐specific weighting of factors was unnecessary for many Acropora species, but may be important for other taxa.
Mariana Álvarez‐Noriega, Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab, Renata Ferrari, Rebecca Forster, Saskia Jurriaans, Jose Montalvo‐Proano, Cathie A. Page, Marji Puotinen, Taylor N. Whitman, Carly J. Randall   +9 more
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Bioinformatic approach to explain how Mg from seawater may be incorporated into coral skeletons

Royal Society Open Science
Corals have been used as geochemical proxies since the 1970s, playing a prominent role in paleoceanography. However, it has not been well elucidated how aqueous ions sourced from seawater are transported and precipitated in coral skeletons.
Tomoko Bell, Akira Iguchi, Yoshikazu Ohno, Kazuhiko Sakai, Yusuke Yokoyama   +4 more
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Heat‐evolved coral photosymbionts exhibit dampened stress responses across distinct physiological contexts

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 4, Page 1755-1773, August 2026.
Summary Experimental evolution under elevated temperatures has generated heat‐evolved (HE) strains of Symbiodiniaceae that enhance coral bleaching tolerance. However, the biomolecular mechanisms underlying this resilience remain poorly understood. We conducted a laboratory heat‐stress experiment and applied synchrotron‐based Fourier transform infrared (
Bede G. Johnston, Madeline R. Garing, Annaleise R. Klein, Wing Yan Chan, Matthew R. Nitschke, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen   +5 more
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Comparative genomics of two closely related Acropora coral species with different spawning seasons reveals genomic regions possibly associated with gametogenesis

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Marine invertebrates release their gametes at an optimal time to produce the next generation. In reef-building scleractinian corals, synchronous spawning is essential for reproductive success. Molecular mechanisms of scleractinian gametogenesis have been
Shiho Takahashi-Kariyazono, Akira Iguchi, Yohey Terai   +2 more
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