Carbon budget trends in octocorals: a literature review with data reassessment and a conceptual framework to understand their resilience to environmental changes

P Derviche, A Menegotto, P Lana - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Although octocorals are a key component of marine hard-bottom systems, their feeding
performance is still poorly understood. Understanding carbon budget trends in octocorals' …

Bleaching susceptibility and resistance of octocorals and anemones at the world's southern-most coral reef

RK Steinberg, TD Ainsworth, T Moriarty… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are amongst the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth, and while stony corals
create the foundational complexity of these ecosystems, octocorals and anemones …

Simulated climate change scenarios impact the reproduction and early life stages of a soft coral

R Liberman, M Fine, Y Benayahu - Marine Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Coral reefs are threatened worldwide by global climate change, manifested in
anthropogenic ocean warming and acidification. Despite the importance of coral sexual …

Influence of Shading on the Behavioral Ecology of a Caribbean Alcyonacean Octocoral, Briareum asbestinum, in the Florida Keys, United States

SL Draud, JD Hoeksema, MJ Draud - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Using a restricted set of behavioral responses, corals must obtain sufficient light to maximize
photosynthesis while simultaneously avoiding predation and molecular damage from UV …

Comparative transcriptomics of the two distinct morphologies of the Caribbean octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766)

L Rivera-García - 2019 - scholar.uprm.edu
Abstract Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766) seems to be the only Caribbean species in the
genus Briareum, with four additional species found in the Indo-pacific region. Since the …