Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation

CGB Grupstra, M Gómez-Corrales, JE Fifer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

A tenuis relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the 'Acropora tenuis' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex

TCL Bridge, PF Cowman, AM Quattrini… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Molecular phylogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the taxonomy,
systematics and biogeography of corals. Recently developed phylogenomic techniques …

Critical information gaps impeding understanding of the role of larval connectivity among coral reef islands in an era of global change

PJ Edmunds, SE McIlroy, M Adjeroud, P Ang… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Populations of marine organisms on coral reef islands (CRI) are connected in space and
time by seawater that transports propagules of plants, animals, and algae. Yet, despite this …

Heat tolerance varies considerably within a reef-building coral species on the Great Barrier Reef

MS Naugle, H Denis, VJL Mocellin, PW Laffy… - … earth & environment, 2024 - nature.com
Reef-building coral populations face unprecedented threats from climate warming. Standing
variation in heat tolerance is crucial for evolutionary processes necessary for corals to …

Genetic divergence and range expansion in a western North Pacific coral

JE Fifer, N Yasuda, T Yamakita, CB Bove… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coral poleward range expansions have recently been observed in response to warming
oceans. Range expansion can lead to reduced genetic diversity and increased frequency of …

Solving the coral species delimitation conundrum

C Ramírez-Portilla, AH Baird, PF Cowman… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Distinguishing coral species is not only crucial for physiological, ecological, and
evolutionary studies but also to enable effective management of threatened reef …

The potential role of temperate Japanese regions as refugia for the coral Acropora hyacinthus in the face of climate change

A Nakabayashi, T Yamakita, T Nakamura, H Aizawa… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
As corals in tropical regions are threatened by increasing water temperatures, poleward
range expansion of reef-building corals has been observed, and temperate regions are …

Marginal reef paradox: a possible refuge from environmental changes?

M de Oliveira Soares - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The occurrence of coral reef communities under extreme and different-from-optimum
conditions makes it possible to test hypotheses about resilience in the face of increasing …

Bleaching and post-bleaching mortality of Acropora corals on a heat-susceptible reef in 2016

K Sakai, T Singh, A Iguchi - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
In 2016, global temperatures were the highest on record, and mass coral bleaching
occurred world-wide. However, around Sesoko Island, Okinawa, southwestern Japan, the …

Transitional coral ecosystem of Taiwan in the era of changing climate

CY Kuo, S Keshavmurthy, YY Huang, MJ Ho… - Coral Reefs of Eastern …, 2023 - Springer
The transitional coral ecosystem of Taiwan features tropical and temperate scleractinian
coral species and suboptimal environmental conditions. As the largest continental island in …