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A Framework for Responding to Coral Disease Outbreaks that Facilitates Adaptive Management

by reefres | Apr 1, 2014

In this study, investigators develop and present a framework for responding to coral disease outbreaks with implications for reef ecosystem health. The framework contains four components, including an early warning system, a tiered impact assessment program, scaled...

Genomic Basis for Coral Resilience to Climate Change

by reefres | Apr 1, 2014

This research study seeks to explain coral resilience to heat stress by looking at differences in genes that are expressed in heat tolerant (resilient) versus heat sensitive corals (of the same species). Authors simulated bleaching stress and used DNA-sequencing to...

Settling into an Increasingly Hostile World: The Rapidly Closing ‘‘Recruitment Window’’ for Corals

by reefres | Apr 1, 2014

In this study, researchers examined the effect of benthic organisms on coral recruitment and early post-settlement survivorship on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef over three years. Using terra cotta settlement plates to mimic substrate on coral reefs, researchers found...

Repeated Bleaching Events May Result in High Tolerance and Notable Gametogenesis in Stony Corals: Oculina Patagonica as a Model

by reefres | Mar 28, 2014

In this study, the authors assessed the effect of bleaching on gametogenesis of populations of the coral Oculina patagonica commonly undergoing repeated seasonal bleaching events (BE) along the Israeli Mediterranean coast, and compared it with the effect of first and...

Ocean Acidification and Warming will Lower Coral Reef Resilience

by reefres | Mar 26, 2014

In this study, the authors quantitatively analyzed how different combinations of CO2 and fishing pressure on herbivores will affect the ecological resilience of a benthic reef community consisting of three common groups: branching corals, fleshy macroalgae and turfs...

Herbivory, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Resilience: Response of a Coral Reef to a Large-Scale Perturbation

by reefres | Mar 26, 2014

The purpose of this study was to identify processes that inhibit the shift from coral to algal dominance in some coral reefs following major disturbances. The role of herbivorous fish populations in the prevention of these phase shifts were specifically addressed....

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A Framework for Responding to Coral Disease Outbreaks that Facilitates Adaptive Management

Genomic Basis for Coral Resilience to Climate Change

Settling into an Increasingly Hostile World: The Rapidly Closing ‘‘Recruitment Window’’ for Corals

Repeated Bleaching Events May Result in High Tolerance and Notable Gametogenesis in Stony Corals: Oculina Patagonica as a Model

Ocean Acidification and Warming will Lower Coral Reef Resilience

Herbivory, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Resilience: Response of a Coral Reef to a Large-Scale Perturbation

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