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As many as 22 of the 45 coral species on the Florida Reef Tract are currently affected by stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). The ongoing disease outbreak was first observed in 2014 in Southeast Florida near Miami and as of early 2019 has been ...
Julie L. Meyer +6 more
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Optimization of DNA extraction for advancing coral microbiota investigations [PDF]
© The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Microbiome 5 (2017): 18, doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0229-y.We designed a two-phase study in order to ...
Apprill, Amy +2 more
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Status of the coral reef ecosystems in the U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico: Florida, Flower Garden Banks, Puerto Rico, Navassa and USVI [PDF]
This chapter covers coral reef areas under the jurisdiction of the USA in the Wider Caribbean: Florida; Flower Garden Banks; Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands; and Navassa.
Caldow, Chris +5 more
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Impact of Crustose Clionid Sponges on Caribbean Reef Corals [PDF]
Some species of limestone-excavating Porifera (Clionidae, Hadromerida) cover their substrate as a thin, continuous, veneer-like crust (beta stage). This film of tissue is the result of fusion of the initially discrete incurrent and excurrent papillae ...
Rützler, K.
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Spatial variations of hermatypic coral assemblages were evaluated at five sites in Cayos Cochinos Archipelago, Honduras, in February 2008. Richness and coverage of corals and other benthic morpho-functional groups were estimated using 56 videotransects ...
Fabián A Rodríguez-Zaragoza +8 more
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Sulfate reducing bacteria as secondary and necessary pathogens in black band disease of corals
Black band disease (BBD) is a complex, polymicrobial disease that consists of cyanobacteria, sulfide-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), and heterotrophic bacteria.
Abigael C. Brownell +1 more
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Pre-construction coral survey of the M/V Wellwood Grounding Site: April 23-24, 2002 [PDF]
This report documents abundance and cover for selected elements of the benthic coral reef assemblage at the site of the 1984 grounding of the M/V Wellwood on Molasses Reef, Florida Keys.
Gittings, Steve
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Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to Recent Caribbean reef corals [PDF]
To document evolutionary patterns in late Cenozoic Caribbean reef corals, we compiled composite stratigraphic ranges of 49 genera and 175 species using Neogene occurrences in the Cibao Valley sequence of the northern Dominican Republic and faunal lists ...
Budd, Ann F. +2 more
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