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Reef Sediments Can Act As a Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Vector

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed in 2014 near Virginia Key in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Field sampling, lab experiments, and modeling approaches have suggested that reef sediments may play a role in SCTLD transmission, though ...
Michael S. Studivan, Michael S. Studivan, Ashley M. Rossin, Ewelina Rubin, Ewelina Rubin, Nash Soderberg, Nash Soderberg, Daniel M. Holstein, Ian C. Enochs   +8 more
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Rhodobacterales and Rhizobiales Are Associated With Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and Its Suspected Sources of Transmission. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 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. SCTLD can have up to a 61% prevalence in reefs and has affected at least 23 species of scleractinian corals.
Rosales SM, Clark AS, Huebner LK, Ruzicka RR, Muller EM.   +4 more
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Changing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Dynamics Through Time in Montastraea cavernosa

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is affecting corals across the Western Atlantic and displays species-specific and regional differences in prevalence, incidence, degree of mortality, and lesion morphology.
Greta Aeby, Blake Ushijima, Blake Ushijima, Erich Bartels, Cory Walter, Joseph Kuehl, Scott Jones, Valerie J. Paul   +7 more
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Differences in the progression rate of SCTLD in Pseudodiploria strigosa are related to colony size and morphology

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) impacts are unprecedented concerning the level of devastation they have imposed on Caribbean coral assemblages.
Carolina Camacho-Vite, Nuria Estrada-Saldívar, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip   +3 more
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Effects of the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak on Coral Communities and the Benthic Composition of Cozumel Reefs [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
In the Caribbean, disease outbreaks have emerged as significant drivers of coral mortality. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) is a novel white plague-type disease that was first reported off the Florida coast in 2014. This disease affects >20 coral species and is spreading rapidly throughout the Caribbean.
Nuria Estrada-Saldívar, Blanca A. Quiroga-García, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Omar O. Rivera-Garibay, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip   +4 more
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Newly deceased Caribbean reef-building corals experience rapid carbonate loss and colonization by endolithic organisms

Communications Biology, 2023
Coral mortality triggers the loss of carbonates fixed within coral skeletons, compromising the reef matrix. Here, we estimate rates of carbonate loss in newly deceased colonies of four Caribbean reef-building corals.
Francisco Medellín-Maldonado, Israel Cruz-Ortega, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Orion Norzogaray-López, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet, Andrés López-Pérez, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip   +6 more
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Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and intervention

Frontiers in Marine Science
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD has impacted over 22 stony coral species across the Caribbean region, leading
Erin Papke, Ashley Carreiro, Caroline Dennison, Jessica M. Deutsch, Lys M. Isma, Sonora S. Meiling, Ashley M. Rossin, Andrew C. Baker, Marilyn E. Brandt, Neha Garg, Neha Garg, Daniel M. Holstein, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Joshua D. Voss, Blake Ushijima   +14 more
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Evaluating land–sea linkages using land cover change and coral reef monitoring data: A case study from northeastern Puerto Rico

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Land cover change that leads to increased nutrient and sediment runoff is an important driver of change in coral reef ecosystems. In this study, we combined satellite remote sensing and field monitoring to assess concomitant changes in watershed land cover and coral cover in northeastern Puerto Rico in 2000–2015.
Pirta Palola, Sasha Hills, Simon J. Pittman, Edwin A. Hernández‐Delgado, Antoine Collin, Lisa M. Wedding   +5 more
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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
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Integrating fossil data in ecological niche models to improve predictions of future habitat of Caribbean corals

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological niche models (ENMs) are used to assess the abiotic preferences of species by linking their occurrences to the environmental conditions in which they live. We developed a fossil‐informed ENM framework that integrates mid‐Holocene and modern occurrences to test niche stability and reconstruct abiotic niche characteristics for four ...
Claire. M. Williams, Fernando Machado‐Stredel, Rowan C. Martindale, Corinne E. Myers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source