Restoration and coral adaptation delay, but do not prevent, climate-driven reef framework erosion of an inshore site in the Florida Keys

AE Webb, IC Enochs, R van Hooidonk… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
For reef framework to persist, calcium carbonate production by corals and other calcifiers
needs to outpace loss due to physical, chemical, and biological erosion. This balance is …

Characterizing Reef Net Metabolism Via the Diel Co‐Variation of pH and Dissolved Oxygen From High Resolution in Situ Sensors

SE Cryer, C Evans, SE Fowell… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are subject to degradation by multiple environmental stressors which are
predicted to intensify. Stress can alter ecosystem composition, with shifts from hard coral to …

Top‐heavy trophic structure within benthic viral dark matter

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A better understanding of system‐specific viral ecology in diverse environments is needed to
predict patterns of virus–host trophic structure in the Anthropocene. This study characterised …

Fine‐grained sediment production by endolithic sponges on Caribbean coral reefs

DM de Bakker, CT Perry… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Endolithic sponges are key players in carbonate cycling on coral reef systems. While their
bioerosion of reef framework is relatively well studied, their role in biogenic sediment …

Convergent photophysiology and prokaryotic assemblage structure in epilithic cyanobacterial tufts and algal turf communities

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Journal of Phycology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As global change spurs shifts in benthic community composition on coral reefs globally, a
better understanding of the defining taxonomic and functional features that differentiate …

A low-cost benthic incubation chamber for in-situ community metabolism measurements

J Mallon, AT Banaszak, L Donachie, D Exton… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Benthic incubation chambers facilitate in-situ metabolism studies in shallow water
environments. They are used to isolate the water surrounding a study organism or …

Drivers of coral reef benthic changes and implications on ecosystem functioning and services

M Reverter, SB Helber, S Rohde… - … and Marine Biology, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Increasing anthropogenic stressors will likely result in many coral reefs undergoing
compositional and functional benthic changes, including towards non-hard coral-dominated …

Community knowledge of shark ecology, abundance, and species composition in Wichubwala, Nalunega, and Porvenir communities in the Guna Yala Comarca …

KJ Porter - 2024 - digitalcollections.sit.edu
Sharks play a critical role in marine ecosystems as apex predators that exert top-down
control of lower trophic levels. In recent decades, global shark populations have declined to …

Impacts of Nitrogen Enrichment on Corals–A Remote Sensing Approach

DE Carrasco - 2022 - repository.usfca.edu
Anthropogenic activities have resulted in ever-increasing threats to coral reefs globally,
wherein the rate of environmental changes have exceeded the historical capacity of corals …

Identifying unknown soft coral species of Anthelia (Octocorallia) with multilocus DNA barcoding

M Pataria - 2023 - roam.macewan.ca
There are an estimated 1-9 million species of corals yet to be discovered. Anthelia is a
species of soft coral that belongs to the Xeniidae family within Octocorallia. The Xeniidae …