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Temperature stress and disease drives the extirpation of the threatened pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus, in southeast Florida [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2021
Rare species population dynamics can elucidate the resilience of an ecosystem. On coral reefs, climate change and local anthropogenic stressors are threatening stony coral persistence, increasing the need to assess vulnerable species locally.
Nicholas P. Jones, Lystina Kabay, Kathleen Semon Lunz, David S. Gilliam   +3 more
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Saving the Last Unicorns: The Genetic Rescue of Florida’s Pillar Corals [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
As stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) swept through the Florida Reef Tract, one of the most severely impacted species was the iconic pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus.
Karen L. Neely, Cynthia L. Lewis, Keri O’Neil, Cheryl M. Woodley, Jennifer Moore, Zach Ransom, Amelia Moura, Ken Nedimyer, David Vaughan   +8 more
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Fallen Pillars: The Past, Present, and Future Population Dynamics of a Rare, Specialist Coral–Algal Symbiosis [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
With ongoing changes in climate, rare and ecologically specialized species are at increased risk of extinction. In sessile foundation fauna that reproduce asexually via fragmentation of existing colonies, the number of colonies does not reflect the ...
Andrea N. Chan, Cynthia L. Lewis, Cynthia L. Lewis, Karen L. Neely, Karen L. Neely, Iliana B. Baums   +5 more
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Recurring Episodes of Thermal Stress Shift the Balance From a Dominant Host-Specialist to a Background Host-Generalist Zooxanthella in the Threatened Pillar Coral, Dendrogyra cylindrus [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Most scleractinian corals form obligate symbioses with photosynthetic dinoflagellates (family Symbiodiniaceae), which provide differential tolerances to their host. Previously, research has focused on the influence of symbiont composition and the dynamic
Cynthia Lewis, Cynthia Lewis, Karen Neely, Karen Neely, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty   +4 more
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Decadal Change in the Population of Dendrogyra cylindrus (Scleractinia: Meandrinidae) in Old Providence and St. Catalina Islands, Colombian Caribbean [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
The IUCN considers the stony coral Dendrogyra cylindrus as vulnerable. However, there is insufficient information on its population structure and dynamics, conservation status, or extinction risk and population decreases have been inferred from ...
Katherine Bernal-Sotelo, Alberto Acosta, Jorge Cortés, Jorge Cortés   +3 more
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Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
In 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) was first detected off the coast of Miami, FL, United States, and continues to persist and spread along the Florida Reef Tractr (FRT) and into the Caribbean.
Stephanie M. Rosales, Stephanie M. Rosales, Abigail S. Clark, Lindsay K. Huebner, Rob R. Ruzicka, Erinn M. Muller   +5 more
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Rapid Population Decline of the Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus Along the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Coral reefs worldwide are in a state of decline, but the population status and impacts of stressors for rare species are generally not well documented using broad-scale monitoring protocols.
Karen L. Neely, Karen L. Neely, Cynthia L. Lewis, Cynthia L. Lewis, Kathleen S. Lunz, Kathleen S. Lunz, Lystina Kabay   +6 more
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Genomes of the Caribbean reef-building corals Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylindrus, and Siderastrea siderea. [PDF]

G3 (Bethesda)
Coral populations worldwide are declining rapidly due to elevated ocean temperatures and other human impacts. The Caribbean harbors a high number of threatened, endangered, and critically endangered coral species compared to reefs of the larger Indo ...
Locatelli NS, Baums IB.
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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from
Wilson B, Edmunds PJ.
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Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats. [PDF]

PLoS One
Atlantic reef-building corals and coral reefs continue to experience extensive decline due to increased stressors related to climate change, disease, pollution, and numerous anthropogenic threats.
Gutierrez L, Polidoro B, Obura D, Cabada-Blanco F, Linardich C, Pettersson E, Pearce-Kelly P, Kemppinen K, Alvarado JJ, Alvarez-Filip L, Banaszak A, Casado de Amezua P, Crabbe J, Croquer A, Feingold J, Goergen E, Goffredo S, Hoeksema B, Huang D, Kennedy E, Kersting D, Kitahara M, Kružić P, Miller M, Nunes F, Quimbayo JP, Rivera-Sosa A, Rodríguez-Martínez R, Santodomingo N, Sweet M, Vermeij M, Villamizar E, Aeby G, Alliji K, Bayley D, Couce E, Cowburn B, Nuñez Lendo CI, Porter S, Samimi-Namin K, Shlesinger T, Wilson B.   +41 more
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