Physiological acclimatization in Hawaiian corals following a 22-month shift in baseline seawater temperature and pH

RH McLachlan, JT Price, A Muñoz-Garcia… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change poses a major threat to coral reefs. We conducted an outdoor 22-month
experiment to investigate if coral could not just survive, but also physiologically cope, with …

Coral species-specific loss and physiological legacy effects are elicited by an extended marine heatwave

EL Strand, KH Wong, A Farraj, S Gray… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Marine heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity, with potentially catastrophic
consequences for marine ecosystems such as coral reefs. An extended heatwave and …

Long-term coral microbial community acclimatization is associated with coral survival in a changing climate

JT Price, RH McLachlan, CP Jury, RJ Toonen… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The plasticity of some coral-associated microbial communities under stressors like warming
and ocean acidification suggests the microbiome has a role in the acclimatization of corals …

Photoacclimation dynamics in coral holobionts responding to thermal and irradiance changes correlate with photon pressure per symbiont

RAB Mason, WJ Skirving… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photoacclimation is a key homeostatic process that enables photosymbiotic reef corals to
flourish within highly variable light environments. However, the temporal dynamics of …

The influence of seawater pCO2 and temperature on the amino acid composition and aragonite CO3 disorder of coral skeletons

N Allison, P Ross, C Castillo Alvarez, K Penkman… - Coral reefs, 2024 - Springer
Coral skeletons are composites of aragonite and biomolecules. We report the
concentrations of 11 amino acids in massive Porites spp. coral skeletons cultured at two …

Effect of species, provenance, and coral physiology on the composition of Hawaiian coral-associated microbial communities

JT Price, RH McLachlan, CP Jury, RJ Toonen… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
The resistance of corals to a changing climate has been linked to physiological parameters
including heterotrophic capacity and energy reserves. Recently, the potential flexibility and …

Flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is positively correlated with the host geographic range

D Zarate, J Gary, J Li - Ecology Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Generalists are thought to adapt to broader ecological conditions compared to less flexible
specialists. However, few studies have systematically tested what ecological or life‐history …

Persistence of phenotypic responses to short-term heat stress in the tabletop coral Acropora hyacinthus

NS Walker, BH Cornwell, V Nestor, KC Armstrong… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Widespread mapping of coral thermal resilience is essential for developing effective
management strategies and requires replicable and rapid multi-location assays of heat …

Exploring natural mechanisms and active enhancement of coral thermal tolerance

C McRae - 2021 - summit.sfu.ca
Coral reefs are being impacted by ocean warming and marine heatwaves caused by climate
change, leading to the loss and degradation of these ecologically and economically …

Emma Strand1, Kevin Wong1, 2, Alexa Farraj1, Sierra Gray1, Ana McMenamin1, Hollie Putnam1

M HEATWAVES - ELUCIDATING THE MECHANISMS OF …, 2023 - search.proquest.com
Marine heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity, with potentially catastrophic
consequences for marine taxa and ecosystems such as coral reefs. Environmentally …