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Management responses in Belize and Honduras, as stony coral tissue loss disease expands its prevalence in the Mesoamerican reef

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has affected Caribbean coral reef colonies since it was first detected in Florida in 2014. Its rapid spread and virulent nature are a major concern to coastal nations in the Caribbean Sea.
Catherine Lee Hing, Zara Guifarro, Damaris Dueñas, Gabriela Ochoa, Alicia Nunez, Kirah Forman, Nicole Craig, Melanie McField, Melanie McField   +8 more
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Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
In 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) was first detected off the coast of Miami, FL, United States, and continues to persist and spread along the Florida Reef Tractr (FRT) and into the Caribbean.
Stephanie M. Rosales, Stephanie M. Rosales, Abigail S. Clark, Lindsay K. Huebner, Rob R. Ruzicka, Erinn M. Muller   +5 more
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Coral reef erosion: In situ measurement on different dead coral substrates on a Caribbean reef

Limnology and Oceanography, Volume 67, Issue 12, Page 2734-2749, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Widespread mortality of reef‐building coral substantially reduces the capacity for reef growth and makes available extensive bare substrate areas that in the absence of coral recovery will be eroded by a variety of external and internal bioeroders.
Ana Molina‐Hernández, Francisco Medellín‐Maldonado, Ines D. Lange, Chris T. Perry, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Host Coral Bleaching Response Viewed Through the Lens of Multi-Omics: Multi-Omics Provides the Tools to Understand the Complex Molecular Basis of Coral Bleaching, Which Can Aid Conservation Efforts. [PDF]

Bioessays
Coral bleaching is driven by multiple inputs, with heat stress and/or high irradiance being most important. The bleaching response is multifactorial with host animal species/strain and algal symbiont genotypes being critical features. Omics readout of heat stress responses includes gene expression, proteomics, metabolite, and SNP data with transcript ...
Bhattacharya D, Nandi S, Chille EE, Arroyo M, Stephens TG.   +4 more
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The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys

Global Change Biology, Volume 28, Issue 17, Page 5294-5309, September 2022., 2022
We used carbonate budgets to reconstruct reef‐accretion potential at 46 reefs throughout the Florida Keys from 1996–2019. Whereas in 1996 many reefs grew at rates comparable with millennial‐scale baselines from reef cores, over the next two decades, thermal stress drove substantial losses of reef‐building corals.
Lauren T. Toth, Travis A. Courtney, Michael A. Colella, Selena A. Kupfner Johnson, Robert R. Ruzicka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease at El Seco, a Mesophotic Reef System off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are ecologically and functionally vital, as they are Essential Fish Habitats that function as refugia for corals and sponges of shallow-water reefs.
Stacey M. Williams, Jorge García-Sais, Jorge Sabater-Clavell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring microbiome engineering as a strategy for improved thermal tolerance in Exaiptasia diaphana

Journal of Applied Microbiology, Volume 132, Issue 4, Page 2940-2956, April 2022., 2022
Abstract Aims Fourteen percent of all living coral, equivalent to more than all the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, has died in the past decade as a result of climate change‐driven bleaching. Inspired by the ‘oxidative stress theory of coral bleaching’, we investigated whether a bacterial consortium designed to scavenge free radicals could integrate ...
Ashley M. Dungan, Leon M. Hartman, Linda L. Blackall, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bacterial Metabolic Potential and Micro-Eukaryotes Enriched in Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Lesions

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The epizootic disease outbreak known as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is arguably the most devastating coral disease in recorded history. SCTLD emerged off the coast of South Florida in 2014 and has since moved into the Caribbean, resulting in ...
Stephanie M. Rosales, Stephanie M. Rosales, Lindsay K. Huebner, Abigail S. Clark, Ryan McMinds, Rob R. Ruzicka, Erinn M. Muller   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental and biological drivers of white plague disease on shallow and mesophotic coral reefs

Ecography, Volume 44, Issue 7, Page 1071-1085, July 2021., 2021
Outbreaks of coral white plague (WP) disease have caused significant regional declines of reef‐building Caribbean corals. Due to a greater availability of epidemiological data, studies have primarily focused on shallow coral reefs (< 30 m). In the U.S.
Andia Chaves‐Fonnegra, Bernd Panassiti, Tyler B. Smith, Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Clemens, Moriah Sevier, Marilyn E. Brandt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive effort of Montastraea cavernosa across depth in the context of both climate change refugia and emergent disease [PDF]

, 2020
As coral populations on shallow reefs decline globally, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCE) have been suggested as potential coral refugia in the face of climate changes, leading to the development of a comprehensive deep reef refugia hypothesis.
Bloomberg, Jeanne
core   +2 more sources