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Caribbean coral diseases: primary transmission or secondary infection?

Global Change Biology, 2012
AbstractOver the last 40 years, disease outbreaks have significantly reduced coral populations throughout the Caribbean. Most coral‐disease models assume that coral diseases are contagious and that pathogens are transmitted from infected to susceptible hosts. However, this assumption has not been rigorously tested.
E. Muller, R. Woesik
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Rapid spread of diseases in Caribbean coral reefs

, 2017
The variety and frequency of diseased coral reef organisms has increased across the Caribbean during the last 10 years. Black band, white band, white pox, and white plague diseases have become more widespread. Yellow band disease now affects a major portion of Montastrea annularis across the Caribbean.
T. Goreau, James M. Cervino, Maya Goreau, R. Hayes, M. Hayes, L. Richardson, Garriett W Smith, K. DeMeyer, I. Nagelkerken, Jaime Garzon-Ferrera, Diego Gil, Ginger Garrison, E. Williams, Lucy Bunckley-Williams, C. Quirolo, K. Patterson, J. Porter, K. Porter   +17 more
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Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs

Hydrobiologia, 2001
Thirteen reef areas of Colombian territories in the Southwestern Caribbean were surveyed during the last 10 years. Coral diseases have been recorded in all these areas since 1990 and some of them have increased progressively. Six types were differentiated in the region, of which black band disease (BBD), dark spots disease (DSD), white band disease ...
J. Garzón-Ferreira, D. Gil-Agudelo, L. M. Barrios, Sven Zea   +3 more
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Multiple mechanisms of transmission of the Caribbean coral disease white plague

Coral Reefs, 2015
White plague is one of the most devastating coral diseases in the Caribbean, and yet important aspects of its epidemiology, including how the disease transmits, remain unknown. This study tested potential mechanisms and rates of transmission of white plague in a laboratory setting.
E. Clemens, Marilyn E. Brandt
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Coral Reef Diseases in the Atlantic-Caribbean

, 2011
Coral reefs are the jewels of the tropical oceans. They boast the highest diversity of all marine ecosystems, aid in the development and protection of other important, productive coastal marine communities, and have provided millions of people with food, building materials, protection from storms, recreation and social stability over thousands of years,
E. Weil, C. Rogers
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Coral Reef Diseases in the Wider Caribbean

, 2004
Over the past few decades, coral reef communities around the world have been experiencing increasingly stressful conditions due to a combination of natural and detrimental anthropogenic factors. In the Caribbean, coral reefs have experienced significant losses in hard coral cover due in part to local habitat degradation, over-fishing, pollutant input ...
E. Weil
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Anthropogenic mortality on coral reefs in Caribbean Panama predates coral disease and bleaching

Ecology Letters, 2012
Ecology Letters (2012)AbstractCaribbean reef corals have declined precipitously since the 1980s due to regional episodes of bleaching, disease and algal overgrowth, but the extent of earlier degradation due to localised historical disturbances such as land clearing and overfishing remains unresolved.
Katie L, Cramer, Jeremy B C, Jackson, Christopher V, Angioletti, Jill, Leonard-Pingel, Thomas P, Guilderson   +4 more
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Coral disease outbreak at Navassa, a remote Caribbean island

Coral Reefs, 2006
In November 2004, a high prevalence of coral disease was observed at several sites around Navassa, an uninhabited Caribbean island between Haiti and Jamaica. At least fifteen mounding and foliaceous scleractinian species were affected with ‘white disease’ signs.
M. W. Miller, D. E. Williams
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Dark Spots Disease and Yellow Band Disease, Two Poorly Known Coral Diseases with High Incidence in Caribbean Reefs

, 2004
Coral reefs have been described as very stable systems in delicate balance with nature. They are also the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems in the sea (Grigg and Dollar 1990). Their exposure to some of the most common natural and anthropogenic perturbations have caused considerable decline of their health during the last three decades (Grigg and
D. Gil-Agudelo, Garriett W Smith, J. Garzón-Ferreira, E. Weil, D. Petersen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Fungal disease resistance of Caribbean sea fan corals ( Gorgonia spp.)

Marine Biology, 2000
An on-going, Caribbean-wide epizootic affecting sea fan corals (Gorgonia spp.) is caused by the fungus Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church). We examined the role of crude extracts in resistance of two species of sea fans, Gorgonia ventalina (L.) and G. flabellum (L.), against A.
K. Kim, C. D. Harvell, P. D. Kim, G. W. Smith, S. M. Merkel   +4 more
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