Avenues of reef-building coral acclimatization in response to rapid environmental change

HM Putnam - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The swiftly changing climate presents a challenge to organismal fitness by creating a
mismatch between the current environment and phenotypes adapted to historic conditions …

Microbiome-mediated mechanisms contributing to the environmental tolerance of reef invertebrate species

E Marangon, PW Laffy, DG Bourne, NS Webster - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Coral reefs globally are increasingly impacted by climate change. High temperature and p
CO2 levels disrupt multiple physiological and biochemical pathways in marine organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of macrobenthos diversity and a zoning proposal for Seixas coral reefs (northeastern Brazil)

MCS Souza, K Massei, PCG Vianna, CAG Santos… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coral reefs worldwide are under severe threat due to their inherent fragility and urgent need
for conservation. The escalating tourism in coral reefs significantly impacts the marine …

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

AM Dungan, LM Hartman, LL Blackall… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome engineering: a promising approach to improve coral health

J Li, Q Yang, J Dong, M Sweet, Y Zhang, C Liu… - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The world's coral reefs are threatened by the cumulative impacts of global climate change
and local stressors. Driven largely by a desire to understand the interactions between corals …

Positive interactions between corals and damselfish increase coral resistance to temperature stress

AA Shantz, MC Ladd, L Ezzat, RJ Schmitt… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
By the century's end, many tropical seas will reach temperatures exceeding most coral
species' thermal tolerance on an annual basis. The persistence of corals in these regions …

[HTML][HTML] Coral diversity matches marine park zonation but not economic value of coral reef sites at St. Eustatius, eastern Caribbean

BW Hoeksema, LM van der Loos… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stony corals play a key role in the marine biodiversity of many tropical coastal areas as
suppliers of substrate, food and shelter for other reef organisms. Therefore, it is remarkable …

Hawaiian coral holobionts reveal algal and prokaryotic host specificity, intraspecific variability in bleaching resistance, and common interspecific microbial consortia …

L Núñez-Pons, R Cunning, CE Nelson… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Historically, Hawai 'i had few massive coral bleaching events, until two consecutive
heatwaves in 2014–2015. Consequent mortality and thermal stress were observed in Kāne …

Coral–microbe interactions: their importance to reef function and survival

C Tran - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Many different microorganisms associate with the coral host in a single entity known as the
holobiont, and their interactions with the host contribute to coral health, thereby making them …

Impacts of nursery-based propagation and out-planting on coral-associated bacterial communities

P Strudwick, J Seymour, EF Camp, J Edmondson… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Efforts to manage coral reef declines are increasingly turning towards in situ propagation of
corals to aid reef recovery. Understanding the factors that influence 'success' throughout the …