Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching

RL Vega Thurber, DE Burkepile, C Fuchs… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Nutrient loading is one of the strongest drivers of marine habitat degradation. Yet, the link
between nutrients and disease epizootics in marine organisms is often tenuous and …

Emerging coral diseases: a temperature‐driven process?

AW Miller, LL Richardson - Marine Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few decades there has been a surge in research focusing on coral disease. While
climate change, specifically rising sea surface temperature, has been proposed as a major …

Diseases of coral reef organisms

EC Peters - Coral reefs in the Anthropocene, 2015 - Springer
All coral reef organisms are susceptible to diseases, as are terrestrial organisms, but
studying these diseases can be more difficult and much remains to be learned. Although …

Corals and their microbiomes are differentially affected by exposure to elevated nutrients and a natural thermal anomaly

L Wang, AA Shantz, JP Payet, TJ Sharpton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Nutrient pollution can increase the prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching
in ambient temperature conditions or during experimental thermal challenge. However …

Effects of Climate-Change-Related Phenomena on Coastal Ecosystems in the Mexican Caribbean

O Guzmán, E Mendoza, BI van Tussenbroek, R Silva - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intensity of climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems is determined by a
combination of global, regional, and local drivers. However, many studies on the impact of …

Differential disease incidence and mortality of inner and outer reef corals of the upper Florida Keys in association with a white syndrome outbreak

JP Rippe, NG Kriefall, SW Davies… - Bulletin of Marine …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The Florida Keys Reef Tract has suffered extraordinary losses in live coral cover over the
past four decades and is now battling an unprecedented coral disease outbreak. Here …

Relationships between the history of thermal stress and the relative risk of diseases of Caribbean corals

CJ Randall, AG Jordán-Garza, EM Muller… - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The putative increase in coral diseases in the Caribbean has led to extensive declines in
coral populations. Coral diseases are a consequence of the complex interactions among the …

Characterisation of the bacterial and fungal communities associated with different lesion sizes of dark spot syndrome occurring in the coral Stephanocoenia intersepta

M Sweet, D Burn, A Croquer, P Leary - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The number and prevalence of coral diseases/syndromes are increasing worldwide. Dark
Spot Syndrome (DSS) afflicts numerous coral species and is widespread throughout the …

Comparing Bacterial Community Composition of Healthy and Dark Spot-Affected Siderastrea siderea in Florida and the Caribbean

CA Kellogg, YM Piceno, LM Tom, TZ DeSantis… - Plos one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Coral disease is one of the major causes of reef degradation. Dark Spot Syndrome (DSS)
was described in the early 1990's as brown or purple amorphous areas of tissue on a coral …

Cryptic diversity of shallow and mesophotic Stephanocoenia intersepta corals across Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

RJ Eckert, AB Sturm, AM Carreiro, AM Klein, JD Voss - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Population genetic analyses can provide useful data on species' regional connectivity and
diversity which can inform conservation and restoration efforts. In this study, we quantified …