Including environmental and climatic considerations for sustainable coral reef restoration

HL Burdett, R Albright, GL Foster, T Mass, TM Page… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs provide ecosystem benefits to millions of people but are threatened by rapid
environmental change and ever-increasing human pressures. Restoration is becoming a …

Symbiotic dinoflagellates divert energy away from mutualism during coral bleaching recovery

L Allen-Waller, KL Barott - Symbiosis, 2023 - Springer
The future of coral reefs in a warming world depends on corals' ability to recover from
bleaching, the loss of their symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodiniaceae) during marine …

Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration

RV Thurber, ER Schmeltzer, AG Grottoli, R van Woesik… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration
specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration [PeerJ] Related research …

Response of coral bacterial composition and function to water quality variations under anthropogenic influence

W Zhu, X Liu, J Zhang, H Zhao, Z Li, H Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial communities play key roles in the adaptation of corals living in adverse
environments, as the microbiome flexibility can enhance environmental plasticity of coral …

Global change differentially modulates Caribbean coral physiology

CB Bove, SW Davies, JB Ries, J Umbanhowar… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Global change driven by anthropogenic carbon emissions is altering ecosystems at
unprecedented rates, especially coral reefs, whose symbiosis with algal symbionts is …

Environmental stability and phenotypic plasticity benefit the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus in an acidified fjord

KK Beck, GM Schmidt-Grieb, J Laudien… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The stratified Chilean Comau Fjord sustains a dense population of the cold-water
coral (CWC) Desmophyllum dianthus in aragonite supersaturated shallow and aragonite …

Gene expression plasticity facilitates acclimatization of a long-lived Caribbean coral across divergent reef environments

KD Castillo, CB Bove, AM Hughes, ME Powell… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Local adaptation can increase fitness under stable environmental conditions. However, in
rapidly changing environments, compensatory mechanisms enabled through plasticity may …

Hurricane Irma linked to coral skeletal density shifts on the Florida Keys reef tract

G Aliyah, SG Jose, C Karl - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Coral reefs are at risk due to various global and local anthropogenic stressors that impact
the health of reef ecosystems worldwide. The most recent climate models predict that climate …

Sexual reproduction of actively restored gorgonians

G Edery, N Viladrich, A Garí, M Montseny… - Restoration …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Corals and gorgonians play an important role as ecosystem engineers in many sublittoral
communities worldwide. However, coral populations are being increasingly impacted by …

Acclimation to elevated temperatures in Acropora cervicornis: effects of host genotype and symbiont shuffling

MO Indergard, A Bellantuono… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
Climate change is increasing the average surface temperatures of tropical waters, creating
unfavorable conditions for corals. Some species of coral can physiologically acclimate to …