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Assessing the impact of stony coral tissue loss disease on coral cover on Bonaire’s Leeward side

Frontiers in Marine Science
The effects of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in the Dutch Caribbean, specifically in Bonaire, have not been documented since its first sighting in March 2023.
Bernardo A. Pepe, Viggo Van der Roest, Olivier Vlam, Sam Nouse, Erik Meesters   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Novel metagenomics analysis of stony coral tissue loss disease. [PDF]

G3 (Bethesda)
AbstractStony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has devastated coral reefs off the coast of Florida and continues to spread throughout the Caribbean. Although a number of bacterial taxa have consistently been associated with SCTLD, no pathogen has been definitively implicated in the etiology of SCTLD.
Heinz JM, Lu J, Huebner LK, Salzberg SL, Sommer M, Rosales SM.   +5 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Stony coral tissue loss disease indirectly alters reef communities. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Many Caribbean coral reefs are near collapse due to various threats. An emerging threat, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), is spreading across the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. Data from the U.S. Virgin Islands reveal how SCTLD spread has reduced the abundance of susceptible coral and crustose coralline algae and increased cyanobacteria, fire ...
Swaminathan SD, Lafferty KD, Knight NS, Altieri AH.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Investigating microbial size classes associated with the transmission of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Effective treatment and prevention of any disease necessitates knowledge of the causative agent, yet the causative agents of most coral diseases remain unknown, in part due to the difficulty of distinguishing the pathogenic microbe(s) among the complex microbial backdrop of coral hosts.
Evans JS, Paul VJ, Ushijima B, Pitts KA, Kellogg CA.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Impacts of stony coral tissue loss disease on the persistence of Caribbean cleaner gobies

Frontiers in Marine Science
Because they serve as the main architects of coral reefs, the distribution and abundance of stony coral species have major impacts on other associated community members. Thus, coral diseases can have significant cascading effects throughout the ecosystem.
Kayla A. Budd, Paul C. Sikkel, Paul C. Sikkel, Paul C. Sikkel, Marilyn E. Brandt, Sophia V. Costa, Tyler B. Smith, Richard S. Nemeth   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Emergence and Initial Impact of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) in the United States Virgin Islands

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Coral communities in the Caribbean face a new and deadly threat in the form of the highly virulent multi-host stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD).
Marilyn E. Brandt, Rosmin S. Ennis, Sonora S. Meiling, Joseph Townsend, Joseph Townsend, Kathryn Cobleigh, Adam Glahn, Jason Quetel, Jason Quetel, Viktor Brandtneris, Leslie M. Henderson, Tyler B. Smith   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Caribbean reef corals have experienced unprecedented declines from climate change, anthropogenic stressors and infectious diseases in recent decades. Since 2014, a highly lethal, new disease, called stony coral tissue loss disease, has impacted many reef-coral species in Florida.
Alvarez-Filip L, Estrada-Saldívar N, Pérez-Cervantes E, Molina-Hernández A, González-Barrios FJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Exploring the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Bacterial Pathobiome [PDF]

, 2020
ABSTRACTA devastating novel coral disease outbreak, referred to as Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), was first described in 2014. It is thought to have originated offshore of Miami-Dade County, FL, but has persisted and spread, affecting new reefs along the Florida Reef Tract and reefs of at least 8 other Caribbean jurisdictions. We investigated
D.D. Iwanowicz, W.B. Schill, C. M. Woodley, A. Bruckner, K. Neely, K.M. Briggs   +5 more
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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3‐dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent challenges therein ...
Wilson B, Edmunds PJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Advances in coral immunity ‘omics in response to disease outbreaks

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Coral disease has progressively become one of the most pressing issues affecting coral reef survival. In the last 50 years, several reefs throughout the Caribbean have been severely impacted by increased frequency and intensity of disease outbreaks ...
Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Andrew C. Baker, Kelsey M. Beavers, Neha Garg, Jeffrey R. Guyon, Aine Hawthorn, Nicholas J. MacKnight, Mónica Medina, Laura D. Mydlarz, Esther C. Peters, Julia Marie Stewart, Michael S. Studivan, Michael S. Studivan, Joshua D. Voss   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source