[HTML][HTML] Decadal demographic shifts and size-dependent disturbance responses of corals in a subtropical warming hotspot

B Sommer, JM Hodge, L Lachs, J Cant, JM Pandolfi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Long-term demographic studies at biogeographic transition zones can elucidate how body
size mediates disturbance responses. Focusing on subtropical reefs in eastern Australia, we …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of coral disease within the high-latitude reef, Lord Howe Island Marine Park

T Moriarty, TD Ainsworth, W Leggat - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Coral disease prevalence has significantly increased under a changing climate, impacting
coral community structure and functionality. The impacts and ecology of coral diseases are …

[HTML][HTML] A coral disease outbreak highlights vulnerability of remote high-latitude lagoons to global and local stressors

CE Page, W Leggat, S Egan, TD Ainsworth - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Outbreaks of coral disease are often associated with global and local stressors like changes
in temperature and poor water quality. A severe coral disease outbreak was recorded in the …

[PDF][PDF] Opinion: Missing half the picture, focus on stony corals during bleaching events has left critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of reef-scale bleaching …

RK Steinberg - 2023 - ecoevorxiv.org
Stony corals make up the bedrock of coral reefs, but they are not the only benthic organisms
that contribute to reef diversity. Sponges, ascidians, octocorals, anemones, macroalgae, and …

[PDF][PDF] Extensive damage and loss of the endangered cauliflower soft coral Dendronephthya australis in central New South Wales–an ecological and histological …

RK Steinberg, J Turnbull, TD Ainsworth… - The ecology of … - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
Diseases have decimated populations of corals across the globe, but the effects of diseases
or their consequences have been understudied in non-gorgonian octocorals. In December …