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Disturbances drive changes in coral community assemblages and coral calcification capacity
Ecosphere, 2020 Anthropogenic environmental change has increased coral reef disturbance regimes in recent decades, altering the structure and function of many coral reefs globally.
Travis A. Courtney +11 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The Holocene reefs off southeast Florida provide unique insights into the biogeographical and ecological response of western Atlantic coral reefs to past climate change that can be used to evaluate future climate impacts.
Alexander B. Modys +5 more
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Education and Research: A Symbiosis to Better Understand a Novel Coral Disease
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Ongoing ecological events, such as new and emerging diseases, provide an important platform for education and research. Field courses and undergraduate research projects can be critical to assisting students with learning scientific skills and career ...
Deanna M. Soper
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Effectiveness of topical antibiotics in treating corals affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Since 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has led to mass mortality of the majority of hard coral species on the Florida Reef Tract. Following the successful treatment of SCTLD lesions on laboratory corals using water dosed with antibiotics ...
Karen L. Neely +3 more
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Repeated ex situ Spawning in Two Highly Disease Susceptible Corals in the Family Meandrinidae
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Members of the family Meandrinidae are highly susceptible to stony coral tissue loss disease, resulting in population reductions up to 88% in both Dendrogyra cylindrus and Meandrina meandrites along the Florida Reef Tract. Reductions in abundance on this
Keri L. O’Neil +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Since 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has contributed to substantial declines of reef-building corals in Florida. The emergence of this disease, which impacts over 20 scleractinian coral species, has generated a need for widespread reef ...
Ian R Combs +3 more
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Shotgun Proteomic Analysis of Thermally Challenged Reef Corals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Although coral reef ecosystems across the globe are in decline due to climate change and other anthropogenic stressors, certain inshore reefs of the Upper Florida Keys reef tract have persisted, with some even thriving, under marginalized conditions.
Anderson B. Mayfield +8 more
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Reconstruction of nitrogen sources on coral reefs: d15N and d13C in gorgonians from Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2005 The gorgonians Plexaura spp. occur throughout the Florida Reef Tract, and lay down annual bands of a tough protein, gorgonin, in their skeletons. We analyzed stable isotopes of nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon (δ 13 C) from individual annual bands in skeletons of Plexaura homomalla and P.
CA Ward-Paige, MJ Risk, OA Sherwood
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Reef Structure of the Florida Reef Tract 2005-2020
, 2023 Abstract Shallow-water coral reefs of the Florida Reef Tract comprise the third largest reef in the world, but during the last several decades scleractinian (stony) corals have suffered unprecedented declines from global and local stressors.
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Deep water macroalgal communities adjacent to the Florida Keys reef tract [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 A combination of remotely operated vehicle and SCUBA dives at 40 to 80 m depth seaward of the Florida Keys reef tract revealed extensive areas of the seafloor dominated by communities of large benthic macroalgae. Macroalgal cover exceeded 80% in many areas where the substratum was dominated by coral and shell fragments and calcareous cobbles ...
JJ Leichter, MD Stokes, SJ Genovese
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