Coral reefs are in decline worldwide and monitoring activities are important for assessing
the impact of disturbance on reefs and tracking subsequent recovery or decline. Monitoring …

The symbiosis between cnidarians (eg, corals or sea anemones) and intracellular
dinoflagellate algae of the genus Symbiodinium is of immense ecological importance. In …

Coral reef ecosystems thrive in tropical oligotrophic oceans because of the relationship
between corals and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate algae called Symbiodinium …

Ocean acidification represents a key threat to coral reefs by reducing the calcification rate of
framework builders. In addition, acidification is likely to affect the relationship between corals …

The ability of coral reefs to survive the projected increases in temperature due to global
warming will depend largely on the ability of corals to adapt or acclimatize to increased …

Concentrating solar thermal (CST) is an efficient renewable energy technology with low-cost
thermal energy storage. CST relies on wide-spectrum solar thermal absorbers that must …

Cnidarian bleaching is a breakdown in the mutualistic symbiosis between host Cnidarians,
such as reef building corals, and their unicellular photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts …

As climate change challenges organismal fitness by creating a phenotype–environment
mismatch, phenotypic plasticity generated by epigenetic mechanisms (eg, DNA methylation) …

In this review we discuss the present knowledge on the biological and environmental control
of biomineralization (calcification) in hermatypic corals. We describe first the anatomy of the …

Some invertebrates have enlisted autotrophic unicellular algae to provide a competitive
metabolic advantage in nutritionally demanding habitats. These symbioses exist primarily …