Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification

O Hoegh-Guldberg, PJ Mumby, AJ Hooten, RS Steneck… - science, 2007 - science.org
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to exceed 500 parts per million and
global temperatures to rise by at least 2° C by 2050 to 2100, values that significantly exceed …

The effect of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms in marine ecosystems: an organism-to-ecosystem perspective

GE Hofmann, JP Barry, PJ Edmunds… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, poses
a serious threat to marine organisms in tropical, open-ocean, coastal, deep-sea, and high …

[HTML][HTML] Coral reef ecosystems under climate change and ocean acidification

O Hoegh-Guldberg, ES Poloczanska… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are found in a wide range of environments, where they provide food and habitat
to a large range of organisms as well as other ecological goods and services. Warm-water …

Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment

M Stat, MJ Huggett, R Bernasconi, JD DiBattista… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Effective marine management requires comprehensive data on the status of marine
biodiversity. However, efficient methods that can document biodiversity in our oceans are …

Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts

RV Thurber, D Willner‐Hall… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The coral holobiont is the community of metazoans, protists and microbes associated with
scleractinian corals. Disruptions in these associations have been correlated with coral …

The engine of the reef: photobiology of the coral–algal symbiosis

MS Roth - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Coral reef ecosystems thrive in tropical oligotrophic oceans because of the relationship
between corals and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate algae called Symbiodinium …

A community change in the algal endosymbionts of a scleractinian coral following a natural bleaching event: field evidence of acclimatization

AM Jones, R Berkelmans… - … of the Royal …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The symbiosis between reef-building corals and their algal endosymbionts (zooxanthellae of
the genus Symbiodinium) is highly sensitive to temperature stress, which makes coral reefs …

Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium

RA González-Pech, TG Stephens, Y Chen… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae are important photosynthetic
symbionts in cnidarians (such as corals) and other coral reef organisms. Breakdown of the …

A carbon-nitrogen negative feedback loop underlies the repeated evolution of cnidarian–Symbiodiniaceae symbioses

G Cui, J Mi, A Moret, J Menzies, H Zhong, A Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Symbiotic associations with Symbiodiniaceae have evolved independently across a diverse
range of cnidarian taxa including reef-building corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish, yet the …

A new Symbiodinium clade (Dinophyceae) from soritid foraminifera in Hawai'i

X Pochon, RD Gates - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2010 - Elsevier
Dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium are crucial components of coral reef ecosystems
in their roles as endosymbionts of corals and other marine invertebrates. The genus …