Management approaches to conserve Australia's marine ecosystem under climate change

LK Bay, J Gilmour, B Muir, PE Hardisty - Science, 2023 - science.org
Australia's coastal marine ecosystems have a deep cultural significance to Indigenous
Australians, include multiple World Heritage sites, and support the nation's rapidly growing …

Breeding and Selecting Corals Resilient to Global Warming

KM Quigley - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Selective breeding of resilient organisms is an emerging topic in marine conservation. It can
help us predict how species will adapt in the future and how we can help restore struggling …

Marine heatwaves threaten cryptic coral diversity and erode associations among coevolving partners

S Starko, JE Fifer, DC Claar, SW Davies, R Cunning… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Climate change–amplified marine heatwaves can drive extensive mortality in foundation
species. However, a paucity of longitudinal genomic datasets has impeded understanding of …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …

Heat‐evolved algal symbionts enhance bleaching tolerance of adult corals without trade‐off against growth

WY Chan, L Meyers, D Rudd, SH Topa… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming has caused coral mass bleaching and mortality worldwide and the
persistence of symbiotic reef‐building corals requires rapid acclimation or adaptation …

Symbiodiniaceae diversity varies by host and environment across thermally distinct reefs

MR Marzonie, MR Nitschke, LK Bay… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) influence coral thermal tolerance at both
local and regional scales. In isolation, the effects of host genetics, environment, and thermal …

The diversity, community dynamics, and interactions of the microbiome in the world's deepest blue hole: Insights into extreme environmental response patterns and …

B Chen, K Yu, L Fu, Y Wei, J Liang, Z Liao… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Blue holes are unique marine sinkholes with extreme environments and biogeochemical
processes. However, our understanding of community dynamics, functional profiles, and …

Should I stay or should I go? Coral bleaching from the symbionts' perspective

CB Scott, A Ostling, MV Matz - Ecology Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching, the stress‐induced breakdown of coral‐algal symbiosis, threatens reefs
globally. Paradoxically, despite adverse fitness effects, corals bleach annually, even outside …

Regime shift of skeletal δ13C after 1997/1998 El Nino event in Porites coral from Green Island, Taiwan

M Ikeda, A Yamazaki, K Ohmori, HW Chiang… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The 1997/1998 El Niño event caused mass coral bleaching and mortality in many
tropical and subtropical regions, including corals on Green Island, Taiwan, in the …

New insights into the on-site monitoring of probiotics eDNA using biosensing technology for heat-stress relieving in coral reefs

L Wang, Q Bin, H Liu, Y Zhang, S Wang, S Luo… - Biosensors and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coral probiotics can improve the tolerance of corals to heat stress, thus mitigating the
process of coral thermal bleaching. Sensitive and specific detection of coral probiotics at low …