Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

The paper models optimal crown-of-thorns starfish control strategies on the Great Barrier Reef to maximize coral cover protection.

The paper uses ARMS and metabarcoding to show nutrient pollution reduces species richness and restructures marine communities in urban coastal areas.

This study develops habitat suitability models to predict optimal locations for staghorn coral outplants in the Florida Keys, finding that deeper, less turbulent waters and proximity to reef edges correlate with higher coral cover and growth.

This study shows that excluding large grazers using deterrents significantly improves survival and growth of outplanted juvenile corals.

This study examines shifts in holobiont communities of Palythoa tuberculosa under high-pCO2 conditions at Iotorishima Island, finding reduced Symbiodiniaceae diversity and altered bacterial profiles.

This study tests menthol treatments on six stony coral species to establish effective bleaching protocols, finding varying tolerance levels and optimal treatment durations.

The paper investigates the density thresholds at which octocoral communities in the Caribbean exhibit emergent 'forest' properties by analyzing structural and flow dynamics.

This study predicts daytime coral spawning times for Porites rus across the Southern Hemisphere using environmental cues and citizen science data.

This paper demonstrates that combining citizen science with deep learning can produce accurate benthic cover estimates of coral reefs at a large scale.

The paper investigates reproductive strategies in Platygyra daedalea, finding high spawning asynchrony, self-fertilization, and genetic subpopulations, suggesting limited cross-fertilization and potential reproductive assurance through selfing.

This study compares spatial and temporal dynamics of microbial and Symbiodiniaceae communities in reef sediments and corals, finding persistent spatial structure despite temporal changes in sediments.

This study investigates microbial and viral community dynamics in SCTLD-affected corals, revealing microbial destabilization and identifying potential beneficial microbiomes in asymptomatic colonies.

This paper identifies a probiotic bacterium with persistent colonization in corals using evolutionary genomic markers, showing improved thermal tolerance and survival during bleaching.

The paper models coral range expansion under climate change and finds that range expansion lags behind expected reef decline, highlighting the need for emission reductions.

This study uses population genomics to guide coral reef restoration by analyzing genetic diversity and connectivity in staghorn corals in Micronesia, identifying key populations for conservation and restoration strategies.

This study shows marine protected areas enhance recovery of some invertebrate species after marine heatwaves but not others, with benefits depending on species traits.

The paper models how corals regulate algal populations under temperature changes to understand symbiont dynamics and bleaching mechanisms.

This study shows that coral fertilization success depends on proximity and current alignment, with reproductive isolation threatening degraded reef populations.

The paper examines transcriptomic responses to thermal stress in shallow and mesophotic red coral populations, finding distinct gene expression patterns suggesting local adaptation influences thermal resilience.

This study examines how two coral species acclimatize to multi-stressor environments by transplanting them between habitats and measuring physiological traits over time.

This study assesses how thermal preconditioning affects thermal tolerance and baseline physiology across six coral species, finding species-specific responses and trade-offs in physiological baselines.

This study investigates how heat stress affects immune responses and nutrient exchange in Exaiptasia diaphana, linking bleaching to increased disease susceptibility.

The paper quantifies somatic genetic variation in corals and estimates their age using mutation rates, finding no positive selection and a neutral framework for studying genetic diversity.

The paper presents the genome and DNA methylome assembly of Acropora pulchra from Moorea, French Polynesia, achieving high completeness and providing insights into its genetic and epigenetic features.

The paper introduces CoralSoundExplorer, an open-source software tool for analyzing coral reef soundscapes using deep learning, demonstrating its ability to visualize and quantify acoustic changes in different reef environments.

This study examines the genetic structure of Acropora aculeus across depths and regions, finding strong geographic differentiation but no depth-related genetic structuring.

This study identifies microbial traits, including enriched bacterial and viral communities, associated with the success of Madracis mirabilis in Curacao coral reefs.

This study develops a 3D reef-scale dispersal model to predict larval dispersal patterns and optimize coral restoration efforts by identifying optimal collection and deployment times and locations.

This paper develops a menthol-DCMU bleaching method to generate aposymbiotic foraminifera for symbiosis research, showing effectiveness in removing symbionts from two species.

This paper reviews lab studies of coral bleaching and finds they use unrealistic heating conditions, leading to inaccurate predictions of coral responses to marine heatwaves.