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 …

The globalization of cultural eutrophication in the coastal ocean: causes and consequences

TC Malone, A Newton - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal eutrophication caused by anthropogenic nutrient inputs is one of the greatest threats
to the health of coastal estuarine and marine ecosystems worldwide. Globally,∼ 24% of the …

Anthropogenic pollution of aquatic ecosystems: Emerging problems with global implications

DP Häder, AT Banaszak, VE Villafañe… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquatic ecosystems cover over two thirds of our planet and play a pivotal role in stabilizing
the global climate as well as providing a large array of services for a fast-growing human …

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

J Barlow, F França, TA Gardner, CC Hicks, GD Lennox… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the combined effects of climate change and other local human stressors on the marine environment

E Gissi, E Manea, AD Mazaris, S Fraschetti… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change (CC) is a key, global driver of change of marine ecosystems. At local and
regional scales, other local human stressors (LS) can interact with CC and modify its effects …

Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality

L Alvarez-Filip, FJ González-Barrios… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Diseases are major drivers of the deterioration of coral reefs and are linked to major
declines in coral abundance, reef functionality, and reef-related ecosystems services. An …

Beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMC): proposed mechanisms for coral health and resilience

RS Peixoto, PM Rosado, DCA Leite… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The symbiotic association between the coral animal and its endosymbiotic dinoflagellate
partner Symbiodinium is central to the success of corals. However, an array of other …

Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts

J Wiedenmann, C D'angelo, ML Mardones, S Moore… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are highly diverse ecosystems that thrive in nutrient-poor waters, a phenomenon
frequently referred to as the Darwin paradox. The energy demand of coral animal hosts can …

A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean

L Alvarez-Filip, N Estrada-Saldívar, E Pérez-Cervantes… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Caribbean reef corals have experienced unprecedented declines from climate change,
anthropogenic stressors and infectious diseases in recent decades. Since 2014, a highly …

Responses of coral-associated bacterial communities to local and global stressors

JM McDevitt-Irwin, JK Baum, M Garren… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
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 …