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Assisted recovery of tissue loss in massive corals Orbicella faveolata: an alternative conservation tool for restoring damaged colonies

Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Introduction Coral reefs, vital for marine ecosystems and human well‐being, face drastic decline due to climate change effects. In the Caribbean, global disturbances and regional water pollution exacerbate conditions, eliciting disease outbreaks that, in synergy with coral bleaching and hurricanes, cause significant damage to key reef‐building
J. J. Adolfo Tortolero‐Langarica, Gabriela Gutiérrez‐Estrada, Juan P. Carricart‐Ganivet   +2 more
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Use of predator exclusion cages to enhance Orbicella faveolata micro-fragment survivorship and growth during restoration

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
As coral reefs face increasing threats from a variety of stressors, coral restoration has become an important tool to aid coral populations. A novel strategy for restoring boulder corals is microfragmentation, which may enhance coral growth by at least ...
Catherine Raker, Manuel Olmeda-Saldaña, Stacey M. Williams, Ernesto Weil, Carlos Prada   +4 more
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Coral Skeletal Cores as Windows Into Past Symbiodiniaceae Community Dynamics

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2025.
Stony corals rely on their association with symbiotic algae for their growth and health. However, corals can lose these symbionts in response to heat stress and bleach, but they can also recover from bleaching and associate with new, more tolerant symbionts.
Jose F. Grillo, Vanessa Tirpitz, Jessica Reichert, Marine Canesi, Stéphanie Reynaud, Eric Douville, Maren Ziegler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial Community Shifts Associated With the Ongoing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
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, Jessy Castellanos-Gell, Greta S. Aeby, Claudia C. Häse, Blake Ushijima, Blake Ushijima, Valerie J. Paul   +6 more
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Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 19, 16 October 2025.
Abstract Uranium‐series dates from coral boulders constrain the timing of a medieval tsunami from the Puerto Rico Trench. Previously reported evidence for this tsunami includes hundreds of coral boulders that came to rest hundreds of meters inland on Anegada, British Virgin Islands.
K. Halimeda Kilbourne, Jennifer Weil‐Accardo, Nathalie Feuillet, Pierre Deschamps, Yuan‐yuan Xu, Chuan‐Chou Shen, Hailong Sun, Robert B. Halley, Brian F. Atwater   +8 more
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Thermal and Acidification Gradients Reveal Tolerance Thresholds in Pocillopora acuta Recruits

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 20, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ocean warming and acidification are among the biggest threats to the persistence of coral reefs. Organismal stress tolerance thresholds are life stage specific, can vary across levels of biological organisation and also depend on natural environmental variability.
Jill Ashey, Federica Scucchia, Ariana S. Huffmyer, Hollie M. Putnam, Tali Mass   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
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Contact‐ and Water‐Mediated Interactions With an Allelopathic Macroalga Drive Distinct Coral Microbiome and Metabolome

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 27, Issue 8, August 2025.
By integrating multi‐omics, this study demonstrates that contact and close proximity interactions trigger distinct microbial and chemical changes within the coral holobiont and its near‐surface water. While microbial dysbiosis was spatially constrained to the interaction zone, changes in lipid metabolism and production of defence metabolites occurred ...
Chloé Pozas‐Schacre, Hugo Bischoff, Camille Vizon, Delphine Raviglione, Camille Clerissi, Isabelle Bonnard, Maggy M. Nugues   +6 more
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Multi‐year evaluation of rearing techniques for three sexually propagated Caribbean corals in a restoration setting

Restoration Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 4, May 2025.
In response to declining coral populations worldwide, conservation groups are increasingly applying restoration strategies to bolster abundance and diversity, including sexual propagation of corals. Collection and fertilization of coral gametes as well as larval rearing and settlement have been successful.
Emily N. Nixon, Alexandra N. Gutting, Sophie Cook, Linda Wegley Kelly, Ashlee Lillis   +4 more
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Disease Diagnostics and Potential Coinfections by Vibrio coralliilyticus During an Ongoing Coral Disease Outbreak in Florida

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
A deadly coral disease outbreak has been devastating the Florida Reef Tract since 2014. This disease, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), affects at least 22 coral species causing the progressive destruction of tissue.
Blake Ushijima, Julie L. Meyer, Sharon Thompson, Kelly Pitts, Michael F. Marusich, Jessica Tittl, Elizabeth Weatherup, Jacqueline Reu, Raquel Wetzell, Greta S. Aeby, Claudia C. Häse, Valerie J. Paul   +11 more
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