Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Interventions to help coral reefs under global change—A complex decision challenge

KRN Anthony, KJ Helmstedt, LK Bay, P Fidelman… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is impacting coral reefs now. Recent pan-tropical bleaching events driven
by unprecedented global heat waves have shifted the playing field for coral reef …

Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality

L Alvarez-Filip, FJ González-Barrios… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Diseases are major drivers of the deterioration of coral reefs and are linked to major
declines in coral abundance, reef functionality, and reef-related ecosystems services. An …

Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic

IB Baums, AC Baker, SW Davies… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

Spatial epidemiology of the stony-coral-tissue-loss disease in Florida

EM Muller, C Sartor, NI Alcaraz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The stony-coral-tissue-loss disease (SCTLD) has recently caused widespread loss of coral
along the Florida reef tract. Yet little is known about where, when, and why this coral disease …

Impacts of a regional, multi-year, multi-species coral disease outbreak in Southeast Florida

CJ Walton, NK Hayes, DS Gilliam - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Globally coral reefs have been declining at alarming rates as a result of anthropogenic
stressors, leading to increased frequency and severity of widespread bleaching and disease …

A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean

L Alvarez-Filip, N Estrada-Saldívar, E Pérez-Cervantes… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Caribbean reef corals have experienced unprecedented declines from climate change,
anthropogenic stressors and infectious diseases in recent decades. Since 2014, a highly …

Chemical and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease

B Ushijima, SP Gunasekera, JL Meyer, J Tittl… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Considered one of the most devastating coral disease outbreaks in history, stony coral
tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is currently spreading throughout Florida's coral reefs and the …

Microbial community shifts associated with the ongoing stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract

JL Meyer, J Castellanos-Gell, GS Aeby… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
As many as 22 of the 45 coral species on the Florida Reef Tract are currently affected by
stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). The ongoing disease outbreak was first observed …

Pathogenesis of a tissue loss disease affecting multiple species of corals along the Florida Reef Tract

GS Aeby, B Ushijima, JE Campbell, S Jones… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
An outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), emerged on reefs off the coast of
southeast Florida in 2014 and continues to spread throughout Florida's Reef Tract. SCTLD is …