Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

As global warming continues, reef-building corals could avoid local population declines
through “genetic rescue” involving exchange of heat-tolerant genotypes across latitudes, but …

Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Coral reefs are the most diverse marine ecosystems. However, coral cover has decreased
worldwide due to natural disturbances, climate change, and local anthropogenic drivers. In …

The taxonomy of scleractinian corals has traditionally been established based on
morphology at the “macro” scale since the time of Carl Linnaeus. Taxa described using …

Studying the mechanisms that enable coral populations to inhabit spatially varying thermal
environments can help evaluate how they will respond in time to the effects of global climate …

Local adaptation can increase fitness under stable environmental conditions. However, in
rapidly changing environments, compensatory mechanisms enabled through plasticity may …

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 …

The capacity of reef-building corals to associate with environmentally-appropriate types of
endosymbionts from the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium contributes significantly to their …

Here we describe an efficient and effective technique for rearing sexually-derived coral
propagules from spawning through larval settlement and symbiont uptake with minimal …