A Review of Research on the Mustard Hill Coral, Porites astreoides

RG Eagleson, L Álvarez-Filip, JS Lumsden - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coral reefs are the most diverse habitat per unit area in the world's oceans, supporting an
estimated 1–3 million species in only 0.2% of its area. These ecosystems have suffered …

The flourishing and vulnerabilities of zoantharians on Southwestern Atlantic reefs

MO Soares, MV Kitahara, MEA Santos… - Marine Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Southwestern Atlantic reefs (SWA), some species of massive scleractinians
and zoantharians are adapted to turbid waters, periodic desiccation, and sediment …

Stony coral tissue loss disease accelerated shifts in coral composition and declines in reef accretion potential in the Florida Keys

LT Toth, TA Courtney, MA Colella… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Outbreaks of coral disease have been a dominant force shaping western Atlantic coral-reef
assemblages since the late 1970s. Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is nonetheless …

Porites astreoides coral populations demonstrate high clonality and connectivity in southeast Florida

EN Shilling, RJ Eckert, AB Sturm, JD Voss - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Coral reefs in southeast Florida have experienced severe losses in coral cover and diversity
in recent decades, primarily due to disease outbreaks and bleaching events exacerbated by …

Modern coral range expansion off southeast Florida falls short of Late Holocene baseline

AB Modys, AE Oleinik, LT Toth, WF Precht… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
As thermal stress and disease outbreaks decimate coral reefs throughout the tropics, there is
growing evidence that higher latitude marine environments may provide crucial refuges for …

Physiological Differences in Bleaching Response of the Coral Porites astreoides Along the Florida Keys Reef Tract During High-Temperature Stress

EA Lenz, LA Bartlett, A Stathakopoulos… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Florida Keys reef tract (FKRT) has a unique geological history wherein Holocene sea-
level rise and bathymetry interacted, resulting in a reef-building system with notable spatial …

Phenotypic variability of Montastraea cavernosa and Porites astreoides along a depth gradient from shallow to mesophotic reefs in the Cayman Islands

ML Doherty, AD Chequer, T Mass… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Phenotypic variability is the ability of the same species to express different phenotypes
under different environmental conditions. Several coral species that exist along a broad …

Using fossil records to predict short‐term changes in niche and spatial dynamics in a broadly distributed coral reef: Niche conservatism and adaptation

UDR de Oliveira, R Dobrovolski, F Barros… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Given the rapid pace of climate change and its significant impact on species distribution
and survival, understanding the dynamics of ecological niches over time becomes …

[HTML][HTML] The genome of the mustard hill coral, Porites astreoides

KH Wong, HM Putnam - GIGAbyte, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Anthropogenic effects have contributed to substantial declines in coral reefs worldwide.
However, some corals are more resilient to environmental changes and have increased in …

Spatial variation in the dynamics and synchrony of coral reef communities in the US Virgin Islands

PJ Edmunds, TB Smith - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Most tropical coral reefs are experiencing declining coral cover, yet interpretation of this
generality is tempered by spatial variation in coral cover among reefs separated over 20 …