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 …

(Non) parallel evolution

DI Bolnick, RDH Barrett, KB Oke… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Parallel evolution across replicate populations has provided evolutionary biologists with
iconic examples of adaptation. When multiple populations colonize seemingly similar …

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 …

Gene expression plasticity as a mechanism of coral adaptation to a variable environment

CD Kenkel, MV Matz - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - nature.com
Local adaptation is ubiquitous, but the molecular mechanisms that give rise to this
ecological phenomenon remain largely unknown. A year-long reciprocal transplant of …

Nutrient availability and metabolism affect the stability of coral–Symbiodiniaceae symbioses

LA Morris, CR Voolstra, KM Quigley, DG Bourne… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Coral reefs rely upon the highly optimized coral–Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis, making them
sensitive to environmental change and susceptible to anthropogenic stress. Coral bleaching …

Using naturally occurring climate resilient corals to construct bleaching-resistant nurseries

MK Morikawa, SR Palumbi - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Ecological restoration of forests, meadows, reefs, or other foundational ecosystems during
climate change depends on the discovery and use of individuals able to withstand future …

Coral reef population genomics in an age of global change

ML Pinsky, RD Clark, JT Bos - Annual Review of Genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Coral reefs are both exceptionally biodiverse and threatened by climate change and other
human activities. Here, we review population genomic processes in coral reef taxa and their …

Oceanic differences in coral-bleaching responses to marine heatwaves

T Shlesinger, R van Woesik - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Anomalously high ocean temperatures have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration
over the last several decades because of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Spatially varying selection between habitats drives physiological shifts and local adaptation in a broadcast spawning coral on a remote atoll in Western Australia

L Thomas, JN Underwood, NH Rose, ZL Fuller… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
At the Rowley Shoals in Western Australia, the prominent reef flat becomes exposed on low
tide and the stagnant water in the shallow atoll lagoons heats up, creating a natural …