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Status of coral reefs of Little Cayman, Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, British West Indies in 1999 and 2000. (Part 1: Stony corals and algae) [PDF]

, 2003
A benthic assessment of the isolated Cayman Islands was completed at 42 sites. Major changes in the reef community structure were documented by comparison with earlier studies. Acropora palmata and A.
Graifman, R., Hall, J.L., Manfrino, C., Reigl, B.   +3 more
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Assessment of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem Connectivity for Proposed Expansion of a Marine Sanctuary in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico: Population Genetics

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
While there are several areas containing shallow coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the availability of suitable reef habitat at mesophotic depths (~30–150 m) along the continental shelf margin suggests the potential for ecologically connected ...
Michael S. Studivan, Joshua D. Voss
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Fish predation hinders the success of coral restoration efforts using fragmented massive corals [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
As coral reefs continue to decline globally, coral restoration practitioners have explored various approaches to return coral cover and diversity to decimated reefs.
Gammon Koval, Nicolas Rivas, Martine D’Alessandro, Dalton Hesley, Rolando Santos, Diego Lirman   +5 more
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Stony coral tissue loss disease intervention with amoxicillin leads to a reversal of disease‐modulated gene expression pathways

Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 19, Page 5394-5413, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) remains an unprecedented disease outbreak due to its high mortality rate and rapid spread throughout Florida's Coral Reef and wider Caribbean. A collaborative effort is underway to evaluate strategies that mitigate the spread of SCTLD across coral colonies and reefs, including restoration of disease ...
Michael S. Studivan, Ryan J. Eckert, Erin Shilling, Nash Soderberg, Ian C. Enochs, Joshua D. Voss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms and potential immune tradeoffs of accelerated coral growth induced by microfragmentation [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Microfragmentation is the act of cutting corals into small pieces (~1 cm2) to accelerate the growth rates of corals relative to growth rates observed when maintaining larger-sized fragments. This rapid tissue and skeletal expansion technique offers great
Louis Schlecker, Christopher Page, Mikhail Matz, Rachel M. Wright   +3 more
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Measuring functional redundancy using generalized Hill numbers

Functional Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 1304-1314, May 2023., 2023
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract A number of metrics for quantifying the amount of functional redundancy in a community have been proposed over the years. Two of the most popular metrics are based on comparing a taxonomic diversity measure with a generalized form of the same measure that accounts for ...
Daniel G. Dick
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological plasticity of the depth generalist coral, Montastraea cavernosa, on mesophotic reefs in Bermuda

Ecology, 2018
Morphological plasticity of the depth generalist coral, Montastraea cavernosa, on mesophotic reefs in Bermuda. 
Gretchen Goodbody‐Gringley, Justin Waletich   +1 more
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Depth-Dependent Genetic Structuring of a Depth-Generalist Coral and Its Symbiodiniaceae Algal Communities at Campeche Bank, Mexico

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Depth-generalist coral holobionts inhabit shallow (0–30 m) and mesophotic (30–150 m) reef zones but may exhibit genetic specialization as a result of adaptations to environmental shifts and/or due to a lack of dispersal across depth.
Alexis B. Sturm, Ryan J. Eckert, Ashley M. Carreiro, Nuno Simões, Nuno Simões, Nuno Simões, Joshua D. Voss   +6 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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Effects of future climate on coral-coral competition.

PLoS ONE, 2020
As carbon dioxide (CO2) levels increase, coral reefs and other marine systems will be affected by the joint stressors of ocean acidification (OA) and warming.
Nicole K Johnston, Justin E Campbell, Valerie J Paul, Mark E Hay   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source