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Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered coral species. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract An unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023 caused widespread coral bleaching and mortality throughout the Caribbean. In the Florida Keys (USA), 2 foundation species, elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) and staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis), were severely affected.
Muller EM, Ladd MC, Karp R, Montoya-Maya PH, Kuffner IB, Baker AC, Bartels E, Bourque A, Clark AS, Cox N, D'Alessandro M, Daughtry B, Firchau B, Fix L, Gilliam D, Hesley D, Lewis C, Lirman D, Lustic C, Macauley K, Moore J, Nedimyer K, O'Neil K, Parsons KT, Smith KM, Spadaro J, Thomasson BC, Unsworth JD, Vaughan D, Miller MW.   +29 more
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Fine-Scale Coral Connectivity Pathways in the Florida Reef Tract: Implications for Conservation and Restoration

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Connectivity between coral reefs is critical to ensure their resilience and persistence against disturbances. It is driven by ocean currents, which often have very complex patterns within reef systems.
Charles Frys, Antoine Saint-Amand, Matthieu Le Hénaff, Matthieu Le Hénaff, Joana Figueiredo, Alyson Kuba, Brian Walker, Jonathan Lambrechts, Valentin Vallaeys, David Vincent, Emmanuel Hanert, Emmanuel Hanert   +11 more
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Severe 2010 cold-water event caused unprecedented mortality to corals of the Florida reef tract and reversed previous survivorship patterns. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Coral reefs are facing increasing pressure from natural and anthropogenic stressors that have already caused significant worldwide declines.
Diego Lirman, Stephanie Schopmeyer, Derek Manzello, Lewis J Gramer, William F Precht, Frank Muller-Karger, Kenneth Banks, Brian Barnes, Erich Bartels, Amanda Bourque, James Byrne, Scott Donahue, Janice Duquesnel, Louis Fisher, David Gilliam, James Hendee, Meaghan Johnson, Kerry Maxwell, Erin McDevitt, Jamie Monty, Digna Rueda, Rob Ruzicka, Sara Thanner   +22 more
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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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Environmental Drivers of Genetic Divergence in Two Corals From the Florida Keys [PDF]

Evolutionary Applications
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves devastate coral reefs around the world, so there is great interest in finding warm‐adapted coral populations that could be used as sources for assisted gene flow and restoration.
Kristina L. Black, J. P. Rippe, Mikhail V. Matz   +2 more
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Northern Florida reef tract benthic metabolism scaled by remote sensing [PDF]

Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 2006
Holistic rates of excess organic carbon production (E) and calcification for a 0.5 km 2 segment of the backreef platform of the northern Florida reef tract (NFRT) were estimated by com- bining biotope mapping using remote sensing with community metabolic rates determined with a benthic incubation system. The use of ASTER multispectral satellite imaging
Kimberly Yates, Ilsa Küffner, Bruce G Hatcher   +2 more
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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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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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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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Pathogenesis of a Tissue Loss Disease Affecting Multiple Species of Corals Along the Florida Reef Tract

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
An outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), emerged on reefs off the coast of southeast Florida in 2014 and continues to spread throughout Florida’s Reef Tract.
Greta S. Aeby, Blake Ushijima, Justin E. Campbell, Scott Jones, Gareth J. Williams, Julie L. Meyer, Claudia Häse, Valerie J. Paul   +7 more
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