The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

Coral—the world's most diverse symbiotic ecosystem

LL Blackall, B Wilson, MJH van Oppen - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Zooxanthellate corals (ie those harbouring Symbiodinium) are the main builders of the
world's shallow‐water marine coral reefs. They represent intimate diverse symbioses …

SymPortal: A novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next‐generation sequencing ITS2 profiling

BCC Hume, EG Smith, M Ziegler… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present SymPortal (SymPortal. org), a novel analytical framework and platform
for genetically resolving the algal symbionts of reef corals using next‐generation …

Standardized short‐term acute heat stress assays resolve historical differences in coral thermotolerance across microhabitat reef sites

CR Voolstra, C Buitrago‐López, G Perna… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching is one of the main drivers of reef degradation. Most corals bleach and suffer
mortality at just 1–2° C above their maximum monthly mean temperatures, but some species …

Thermal refugia against coral bleaching throughout the northern Red Sea

EO Osman, DJ Smith, M Ziegler, B Kürten… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical reefs have been impacted by thermal anomalies caused by global warming that
induced coral bleaching and mortality events globally. However, there have only been very …

Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment

V Schoepf, M Stat, JL Falter, MT McCulloch - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Naturally extreme temperature environments can provide important insights into the
processes underlying coral thermal tolerance. We determined the bleaching resistance of …

Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance

CR Voolstra, JJ Valenzuela, S Turkarslan… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Corals from the northern Red Sea, in particular the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA), have exceptionally
high bleaching thresholds approaching> 5℃ above their maximum monthly mean (MMM) …

Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

BCC Hume, CR Voolstra, C Arif, C D'Angelo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Coral communities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) withstand unusually high salinity
levels and regular summer temperature maxima of up to∼ 35° C that kill conspecifics …

Host-specialist lineages dominate the adaptive radiation of reef coral endosymbionts

DJ Thornhill, AM Lewis, DC Wham, TC LaJeunesse - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Bursts in species diversification are well documented among animals and plants, yet few
studies have assessed recent adaptive radiations of eukaryotic microbes. Consequently, we …

The environmental costs of coastal urbanization in the Arabian Gulf

JA Burt - City, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Coastal urbanization has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the Arabian Gulf and this
has put increasing pressure on important but underappreciated coastal ecosystems …