Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes, and impact upon structural complexity

AJ Fordyce, TD Ainsworth, SF Heron… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

The diversity and ecology of Symbiodiniaceae: A traits-based review

MR Nitschke, SL Rosset, CA Oakley… - Advances in Marine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the most successful microeukaryotes to form mutualisms with animals are
dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae. These photosynthetic symbioses drive …

Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene

CJ Randall, AP Negri, KM Quigley, T Foster… - Marine Ecology …, 2020 - int-res.com
Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are
reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs …

Mangrove lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef support coral populations persisting under extreme environmental conditions

EF Camp, J Edmondson, A Doheny, J Rumney… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Global degradation of coral reefs has increased the urgency of identifying stress-tolerant
coral populations, to enhance understanding of the biology driving stress tolerance, as well …

Unlocking the phylogenetic diversity, primary habitats, and abundances of free‐living Symbiodiniaceae on a coral reef

L Fujise, DJ Suggett, M Stat, T Kahlke… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae form mutualistic symbioses with marine
invertebrates such as reef‐building corals, but also inhabit reef environments as free‐living …

Experimental considerations of acute heat stress assays to quantify coral thermal tolerance

JJV Nielsen, G Matthews, KR Frith, HB Harrison… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the distribution and abundance of heat tolerant corals across seascapes is
imperative for predicting responses to climate change and to support novel management …

Revealing changes in the microbiome of Symbiodiniaceae under thermal stress

EF Camp, T Kahlke, MR Nitschke… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiodiniaceae are a diverse family of marine dinoflagellates, well known as coral
endosymbionts. Isolation and in vitro culture of Symbiodiniaceae strains for physiological …

Rapid Shifts in Bacterial Communities and Homogeneity of Symbiodiniaceae in Colonies of Pocillopora acuta Transplanted Between Reef and Mangrove …

TD Haydon, JR Seymour, JB Raina… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
It has been proposed that an effective approach for predicting whether and how reef-forming
corals persist under future climate change is to examine populations thriving in present day …

Symbiont shuffling across environmental gradients aligns with changes in carbon uptake and translocation in the reef-building coral Pocillopora acuta

M Ros, DJ Suggett, J Edmondson, T Haydon… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Symbiosis between reef-building corals and unicellular algae (Symbiodiniaceae) fuels the
growth and productivity of corals reefs. Capacity for Symbiodiniaceae to fix inorganic carbon …

Toward bio‐optical phenoty** of reef‐forming corals using Light‐Induced Fluorescence Transient‐Fast Repetition Rate fluorometry

DJ Suggett, MR Nitschke, DJ Hughes… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Active chlorophyll a fluorometry is a well‐established tool for noninvasively diagnosing coral
functional state, but has not yet been developed as a rapid phenoty** (functional …