Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts increase coral bleaching tolerance

P Buerger, C Alvarez-Roa, CW Coppin, SL Pearce… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Coral reefs worldwide are suffering mass mortalities from marine heat waves. With the aim of
enhancing coral bleaching tolerance, we evolved 10 clonal strains of a common coral …

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 …

Reduced thermal tolerance in a coral carrying CRISPR-induced mutations in the gene for a heat-shock transcription factor

PA Cleves, AI Tinoco, J Bradford… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Reef-building corals are keystone species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses
including climate change. To investigate corals' responses to stress and other aspects of …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in a reef-building coral

PA Cleves, ME Strader, LK Bay… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic
stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and …

Applying coral breeding to reef restoration: best practices, knowledge gaps, and priority actions in a rapidly‐evolving field

AT Banaszak, KL Marhaver, MW Miller… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reversing coral reef decline requires reducing environmental threats while actively restoring
reef ecological structure and function. A promising restoration approach uses coral breeding …

The active reef restoration toolbox is a vehicle for coral resilience and adaptation in a changing world

B Rinkevich - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019 - mdpi.com
The accelerating marks of climate change on coral-reef ecosystems, combined with the
recognition that traditional management measures are not efficient enough to cope with …

Using propagules to restore coastal marine ecosystems

MA Vanderklift, C Doropoulos, D Gorman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Reversing the decline of coastal marine ecosystems will rely extensively on ecological
restoration. This will in turn rely on ensuring adequate supply and survival of propagules …

Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far

M Omori - Marine Biology Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Coral reef restoration is not the same as forest restoration as its success is not always
guaranteed because of insufficient knowledge of coral biology. The technology of active …