Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

Systematic revision of Symbiodiniaceae highlights the antiquity and diversity of coral endosymbionts

TC LaJeunesse, JE Parkinson, PW Gabrielson… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The advent of molecular data has transformed the science of organizing and studying life on
Earth. Genetics-based evidence provides fundamental insights into the diversity, ecology …

[HTML][HTML] High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching

A Safaie, NJ Silbiger, TR McClanahan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Coral bleaching is the detrimental expulsion of algal symbionts from their cnidarian hosts,
and predominantly occurs when corals are exposed to thermal stress. The incidence and …

Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs

S Hackerott, HA Martell, JM Eirin-Lopez - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a
dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …

Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic

IB Baums, AC Baker, SW Davies… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

Towards enhancing coral heat tolerance: a “microbiome transplantation” treatment using inoculations of homogenized coral tissues

T Doering, M Wall, L Putchim, T Rattanawongwan… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Microbiome manipulation could enhance heat tolerance and help corals
survive the pressures of ocean warming. We conducted coral microbiome transplantation …

Trophic strategy and bleaching resistance in reef-building corals

IE Conti-Jerpe, PD Thompson, CWM Wong… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Ocean warming increases the incidence of coral bleaching, which reduces or eliminates the
nutrition corals receive from their algal symbionts, often resulting in widespread mortality. In …

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking

DJ Suggett, DJ Smith - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continued declines in coral reef health over the past three decades have been punctuated
by severe mass coral bleaching‐induced mortality events that have grown in intensity and …

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 …