Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Horizon scan of rapidly advancing coral restoration approaches for 21st century reef management

DJ Suggett, MJH van Oppen - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Coral reef restoration activity is accelerating worldwide in efforts to offset the rate of reef
health declines. Many advances have already been made in restoration practices centred …

Predictive models for the selection of thermally tolerant corals based on offspring survival

KM Quigley, MJH van Oppen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Finding coral reefs resilient to climate warming is challenging given the large spatial scale of
reef ecosystems. Methods are needed to predict the location of corals with heritable …

Translating the 10 golden rules of reforestation for coral reef restoration

KM Quigley, M Hein, DJ Suggett - Conservation Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts are accelerating to protect and restore ecosystems globally. With trillions of dollars in
ecosystem services at stake, no clear framework exists for developing or prioritizing …

The role of gene expression and symbiosis in reef-building coral acquired heat tolerance

ME Strader, KM Quigley - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Predicting how reef-building corals will respond to accelerating ocean warming caused by
climate change requires knowledge of how acclimation and symbiosis modulate heat …

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 …

A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration

EC Shaver, E McLeod, MY Hein… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent warm temperatures driven by climate change have caused mass coral bleaching
and mortality across the world, prompting managers, policymakers, and conservation …

Interspecific hybridisation provides a low-risk option for increasing genetic diversity of reef-building corals

AM Lamb, LM Peplow, AM Dungan… - Biology …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Interspecific hybridisation increases genetic diversity and has played a significant role in the
evolution of corals in the genus Acropora. In vitro fertilisation can be used to increase the …

Cryopreservation can assist gene flow on the Great Barrier Reef

J Daly, RJ Hobbs, N Zuchowicz, JK O'Brien… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Maintaining genetic diversity and biodiversity is key to sustaining healthy ecosystems and
their capacity for adaptation. Assisted Gene Flow (AGF) is a management approach to …

Selective breeding to enhance the adaptive potential of corals

C Drury, C Caruso, K Quigley - Coral reef conservation and restoration in …, 2022 - Springer
The decline of coral reefs has prompted an emergent field of research on the potential for
various biological interventions focused on increasing stress tolerance in corals. Among …