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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting baselines of coral‐reef species composition from the Late Pleistocene to the present in the Florida Keys

The Depositional Record
The ongoing global‐scale reassembly of modern coral reefs is unprecedented compared with the observed stability of most late Quaternary reef assemblages.
Lauren T. Toth, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Scarlette Hsia, David Weinstein   +3 more
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Transcriptomic response of Acropora cervicornis following transplantation to a marginal, nearshore environment

Frontiers in Marine Science
As reef-building coral cover has declined worldwide, coral restoration has become a widespread response towards repopulating degraded reefs. In-situ nurseries have provided refugia for the regrowth of several coral species, yet long-term success ...
Allyson DeMerlis, Allyson DeMerlis, Allyson DeMerlis, Colin Foord, Dalton J. Hesley, Richard F. Karp, Richard F. Karp, Richard F. Karp, Lys M. Isma, Natalia Andrade-Rodriguez, Kevin H. Wong, Michael S. Studivan, Michael S. Studivan, Mike Jankulak, Andrew C. Baker, Diego Lirman, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Ian C. Enochs   +17 more
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Gene Expression Response to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Transmission in M. cavernosa and O. faveolata From Florida

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Since 2014, corals within Florida’s Coral Reef have been dying at an unprecedented rate due to stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Here we describe the transcriptomic outcomes of three different SCTLD transmission experiments performed at the ...
Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Michael T. Connelly, Benjamin D. Young, Katherine Eaton, Erinn M. Muller, Valerie J. Paul, Blake Ushijima, Allyson DeMerlis, Allyson DeMerlis, Melissa K. Drown, Ashley Goncalves, Ashley Goncalves, Nicholas Kron, Grace A. Snyder, Cecily Martin, Kevin Rodriguez   +15 more
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Advancing conservation breeding programs for marine invertebrates

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the face of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss caused by climate change and other stressors, conservation breeding, or captive breeding, with the aim of reintroduction for wild population recovery, is an emerging tool for preventing species’ extinction and rehabilitating ecosystems.
Elora H. López‐Nandam, Bart Shepherd, Kylie Lev, Rebecca Albright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biofilms as potential reservoirs of stony coral tissue loss disease

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Since 2014, corals throughout Florida’s Coral Reef have been plagued by an epizootic of unknown etiology, colloquially termed stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD).
James S. Evans, Valerie J. Paul, Christina A. Kellogg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the protection status and exposure to warming of Caribbean reefs with high functional potential

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino, Andrés Lira‐Noriega, Enrique Martínez‐Meyer, Héctor Reyes‐Bonilla, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coral reef restoration can reduce coastal contamination and pollution hazards

Communications Earth & Environment
Coral reef restoration can reduce the wave-driven flooding for coastal communities. However, this protection has yet to be assessed in terms of the reduced risk of flood-driven environmental contamination.
Marina E. Rottmueller, Curt D. Storlazzi, Fabian Frick   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating fossil data in ecological niche models to improve predictions of future habitat of Caribbean corals

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological niche models (ENMs) are used to assess the abiotic preferences of species by linking their occurrences to the environmental conditions in which they live. We developed a fossil‐informed ENM framework that integrates mid‐Holocene and modern occurrences to test niche stability and reconstruct abiotic niche characteristics for four ...
Claire. M. Williams, Fernando Machado‐Stredel, Rowan C. Martindale, Corinne E. Myers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viral-Like Particles Are Associated With Endosymbiont Pathology in Florida Corals Affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first documented in 2014 near the Port of Miami, Florida, and has since spread north and south along Florida’s Coral Reef, killing large numbers of more than 20 species of coral and leading to the functional ...
Thierry M. Work, Tina M. Weatherby, Jan H. Landsberg, Yasunari Kiryu, Samantha M. Cook, Esther C. Peters   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source