Recent work has shown that hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic matter (OM) from algae
disrupts the function of the coral holobiont and promotes the invasion of opportunistic …

The microbial contribution to ecological resilience is still largely overlooked in coral reef
ecology. Coral-associated bacteria serve a wide variety of functional roles with reference to …

Declines in coral cover are generally associated with increases in the abundance of fleshy
algae. In many cases, it remains unclear whether algae are responsible, directly or …

Due to climate change, coral reefs have experienced mass bleaching, and mortality events
in recent years. Although coral reefs are unlikely to persist in their current form unless …

Coral reefs are in dramatic global decline, with seaweeds commonly replacing corals. It is
unclear, however, whether seaweeds harm corals directly or colonize opportunistically …

Successful settlement and recruitment of corals is critical to the resilience of coral reefs.
Given that many degraded reefs are dominated by benthic algae, recovery of coral …

Competition among sessile organisms is a major process on coral reefs, and is becoming
more important as anthropogenic disturbances cause shifts in dominance to non-reef …

Increasing algal cover on tropical reefs worldwide may be maintained through feedbacks
whereby algae outcompete coral by altering microbial activity. We hypothesized that algae …

The ecological resilience of coral reefs depends critically on the capacity of coral
populations to re-establish in habitats dominated by macroalgae. Coral reefs globally are …

Benthic primary producers in marine ecosystems may significantly alter biogeochemical
cycling and microbial processes in their surrounding environment. To examine these …