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Enhancing reef carbonate budgets through coral restoration [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Complex reef structure, built via calcium carbonate production by stony corals and other calcifying taxa, supports key ecosystem services. However, the decline in coral cover on reefs of the Florida Reef Tract (US), caused by ocean warming, disease, and ...
Emily Esplandiu, John Morris, Ian Enochs, Nicole Besemer, Diego Lirman   +4 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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Repeated Thermal Stress, Shading, and Directional Selection in the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017
Over the last three decades reef corals have been subjected to an unprecedented frequency and intensity of thermal-stress events, which have led to extensive coral bleaching, disease, and mortality.
Robert van Woesik, Kelly R. McCaffrey
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Hurricane Irma Linked to Coral Skeletal Density Shifts on the Florida Keys Reef Tract. [PDF]

Integr Comp Biol
Synopsis Coral reefs are at risk due to various global and local anthropogenic stressors that impact the health of reef ecosystems worldwide. The most recent climate models predict that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of tropical storms.
Aliyah G, Jose SG, Karl C.
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Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
Metabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
Clever F, Preziosi RF, Nguyen B, De Gracia B, Quintero Arrieta H, McMillan WO, Altieri AH, O'Dea A, Knowlton N, Leray M.   +9 more
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Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial-Refugia Hypothesis. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Marine heatwaves continue to pose a threat to coral reefs worldwide. However, refugia may help sustain coral populations. We used data from 30,000+ surveys worldwide, spanning from 2002 to 2020, to identify the environmental conditions that may characterize marine‐heatwave refugia.
Ferris Z, Walker AS, Rue H, van Woesik R.   +3 more
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Ranking 67 Florida Reefs for Survival of Acropora cervicornis Outplants

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Over the past three decades, coral populations have declined across the tropical and subtropical oceans because of thermal stress, coral diseases, and pollution.
Raymond B. Banister, Robert van Woesik
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Stony coral tissue loss disease accelerated shifts in coral composition and declines in reef accretion potential in the Florida Keys

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Outbreaks of coral disease have been a dominant force shaping western Atlantic coral-reef assemblages since the late 1970s. Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is nonetheless having an unprecedented impact in the region. Whereas numerous studies over
Lauren T. Toth, Travis A. Courtney, Michael A. Colella, Rob R. Ruzicka   +3 more
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Methodological recommendations for assessing scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Quantifying recruitment of corals is important for evaluating their capacity to recover after disturbances through natural processes, yet measuring recruitment rates in situ is challenging due to the minute size of the study organism and the complexity ...
Leah M. Harper, Lindsay K. Huebner, Elijah D. O’Cain, Rob Ruzicka, Daniel F. Gleason, Nicole D. Fogarty   +5 more
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Differences in Molecular Responses to a Thermally Variable Preconditioning Treatment for Two Caribbean Coral Species. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
ABSTRACT Coral reefs around the world are increasingly threatened by rising ocean temperatures, leading to more frequent mass bleaching events. However, some corals, typically found in more thermally variable environments, have demonstrated resilience to thermal stress.
DeMerlis A, Studivan MS, Wong K, Soderberg N, Ehrens D, Isma LM, Rosing K, Cocson KS, Thomas R, Dvorkin D, Kiel PM, Unsworth JD, D'Alessandro M, Palacio-Castro AM, Lirman D, Baker AC, Muller EM, Traylor-Knowles N, Enochs IC.   +18 more
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