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Assisted sexual reproduction of Acropora cervicornis for active restoration on Florida's Coral Reef
<p class="MsoNormal">Given the rapid, global decline in the health and abundance of coral reefs, increased investments in restoration-based interventions – including asexual and sexual propagation – are being made by coral reef scientists at research institutions, but also at zoos and aquariums. Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium is an independent, non-profit marine science organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of Florida's Coral Reef, and does so, using science-based strategies. In order to promote the long-term persistence, resilience, and adaptive potential of restored coral populations on Florida's Coral Reef, Mote scientists are performing critical research and restoration activities related to assisted sexual reproduction (ASR). The objective of this study was to optimize ASR of <em>Acropora</em> <em>cervicornis</em> by (1) evaluating broodstock compatibility for genets actively used within Mote's restoration gene pool, (2) optimizing larval settlement by testing spectral cues, (3) and optimizing the grow-out of sexual recruits by testing the impact of light on growth, survival, and algal symbiont uptake in the presence of adult corals or not. Overall, we found that corals and genets spawned with high synchrony, both within and across years, and in terms of predicted spawning times related to nights after the full moon and minutes after sunset. Across two years, overall fertilization success was high (~95%), but we did find one pair of genets that was not compatible. During settlement, larvae preferred pink and purple-colored substrates, which was consistent with our expectation that they would select substrates similar in color to crustose coralline algae (CCA). Interestingly though, they only did so when a matching chemical cue from CCA was also present, indicating that larvae integrate multiple cues simultaneously to determine the most appropriate place to settle. Growth and symbiont uptake were faster in recruits reared in the presence of adult corals and additional lighting, but survivorship was not different through the first ten weeks post-settlement between treatments. A subset of corals was outplanted using two different techniques based on single or clustered corals. We report the initial 1-month survival results. We also provide a detailed protocol and general recommendations for ASR based on years of coral sexual propagation experience.</p>
Press versus pulse nutrient supply and species interactions mediate growth of coral reef macroalgae
<p>Globally, ecosystems are experiencing dramatic alterations in the supply of resources, including nutrients. How the temporal regime (press versus pulse), independent of total resource supply, affects growth and species interactions of primary producers remains unexplored. Coral reefs experience anthropogenic modifications to nutrient regimes, making it critical to understand impacts on primary producers, such as macroalgae. In mesocosms, we examined how three macroalgae respond to the temporal pattern in nutrient regime (ambient, press, pulse) and species interactions (alone, pairwise, or all together) in terms of their individual growth and assemblage productivity. We found nutrient regime and species interactions influenced individual growth and total assemblage productivity. Press regimes promoted the highest productivity of total assemblages. We observed species interactions ranging from competitive to facilitative varied between macroalgal species and nutrient regimes. Ours is the first study to demonstrate the temporal regime of nutrient delivery, independent of total nutrient supply, strongly impacts the productivity of species assemblages, the nature and outcome of species interactions, and the relative growth rates of individual producer species. As nutrient regimes increasingly fluctuate for coastal marine ecosystems in the Anthropocene, our findings imply macroalgal community composition may also fluctuate. More broadly, our study highlights the importance of assessing primary producer species' responses to varying nutrient regimes to understand factors structuring their communities.</p>
Dataset for the manuscript: "Three-dimensional species distribution modeling reveals the realized spatial niche for coral recruitment on contemporary Caribbean reefs"
<p>Whether the three-dimensional (3D) structure of habitats influences and partition recruitment niches of corals is unknown. We developed a new method that combined Species Distribution Modeling and Structure from Motion to characterize and map the three-dimensional recruitment niches of two ecosystem engineers on Caribbean coral reefs, scleractinian corals and octocorals. </p> <p>In this repository, we include 48 3D models of small areas of the reef (i.e., within ~ 0.25 m<sup>2</sup> quadrats) reconstructed with Structure-from-Motion, as well as the geospatial data used to characterize and map the realized recruitment niche for scleractinian corals and octocorals on Caribbean coral reefs. We conducted the study at two shallow, fringing reefs off the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands, named Grootpan and Europa Bays (18° 18.360’N, 64° 43.140’W, and 18° 19.016’N, 64° 43.798’W, respectively). Within each 0.25 m<sup>2</sup> quadrat, we counted and marked all recruits (octocorals ≤ 5 cm height, and scleractinians ≤ 4 cm wide).</p> <p><em>DATASET DESCRIPTIONS:</em></p> <ul> <li><strong>"Quadname_data.zip":</strong> In each of this folders we included all the data calculated within a quadrat: <ul> <li>ASCII files (.txt).</li> <li>The annotated dense point cloud (.las) for each quadrat.</li> <li>The quadrat 3D model texture (.jpg).</li> <li>The quadrat 3D polygon mesh (.ply).</li> <li>The quadrat 2.5D Digital Elevation Model (i.e., DEM; .tif).</li> <li>Shape files with recruits local coordinates within each quadrat (.dbf, .prj, .shp, .shx).</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>"datawide.rds": </strong>This is the file needed to run the analyses performed in Martínez-Quintana et al., 2023. This file is obtained after processing all the raw data calculated within each quadrat. All code associated with the workflow used to obtain the datawide.rds file and run the analyses performed in Martínez-Quintana et al., 2023 is available at <a href="https://github.com/AdamWilsonLab/meshSDM">github.com/AdamWilsonLab/meshSDM</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>IMPORTANT NOTES: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Quadrat names starting with the letters “eu” indicate the data were collected at Europa Bay, whereas those starting with the letters “ec” indicate that data were collected at Grootpan Bay (commonly named East Cabritte).</li> <li>Each ASCII file (quadname_ASCII_subsampled_X.txt) contains the slope and roughness of the quadrat calculated on the point cloud at 5, 10, 20, and 100 mm scales, and the smooth point cloud used to calculate the topographic exposure index (TEI) described in Martínez-Quintana et al., 2023. Calculations were performed and ASCII files were created with CloudCompare.</li> <li>Each dense point cloud, mesh, texture, and DEM were calculated with Agisoft Metashape.</li> <li>Agisoft Metashape allows the user to classify and annotate groups of points in the dense point cloud. However, the list of classes provided by the software corresponds to the standard list used for terrestrial LiDAR data; these classes cannot be renamed within the software. Thus, for the present study, we coded the automatic semantic classifications available in Metashape as follows: <ul> <li>Ground = Calcareous rock.</li> <li>Building = Igneous rock.</li> <li>High noise = Sand.</li> <li>Low vegetation = Adult Scleractinian corals.</li> <li>Medium vegetation = Adult Octocoral base.</li> <li>High vegetation = Sponge.</li> <li>Water = Octocoral recruit (named also ocr).</li> <li>Road Surface = Scleractinian recruit (named also scr).</li> <li>Unclassified = created points but never classified (excluded from the analyses).</li> <li>Low Point = noise (unreliable points).</li> <li>Transmission tower and Rail = Points outside the quadrat and excluded from the analysis.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Coexisting mangrove-coral habitat use by reef fishes in the Caribbean
<p>We conducted visual fish surveys in coexisting mangrove-coral (CMC) habitats in Panama to analyze the effect of coral presence in mangrove habitats on the fish assemblage. Our study revealed that CMC habitats harbor distinct fish assemblages compared to mangrove habitats without coral, with greater species richness and increased herbivore abundance.</p>
Data for Sea urchin mass mortalities 40 years apart further threaten Caribbean coral reefs
<p>In 1983-1984, a mass mortality caused a Caribbean-wide, >95% population reduction of the echinoid grazer, Diadema antillarum. This led to blooms of algae contributing to the devastation of scleractinian coral populations. Since then, D. antillarum exhibited only limited and patchy population recovery in shallow water, and in 2022 was struck by a second mass mortality reported over many regions in the Caribbean. Half a century of time-series analyses of populations of this sea urchin from St. John, US Virgin Islands, reveal that the 2022 event has reduced population densities by 98.00% compared to 2021, and by 99.96% compared to 1983. In 2021, coral cover throughout the Caribbean was approaching the lowest values recorded in modern times. However, prior to 2022, locations with small aggregations of D. antillarum produced grazing halos in which weedy corals were able to successfully recruit and become the dominant coral taxa. The 2022 mortality has eliminated these halos on St. John and perhaps many other regions, thereby increasing the risk that these reefs will further transition into coral-free communities.</p>
Data for: Seasonal variability in resilience of a coral reef fish to marine heatwaves and hypoxia
<p>Climate change projections indicate more frequent and severe tropical marine heatwaves (MHWs) and accompanying hypoxia year-round. However, most studies have focused on peak summer peak conditions under the assumption that annual maximum temperatures will induce the greatest physiological consequences. This study challenges this idea by characterizing seasonal MHWs (i.e., mean, maximum, and cumulative intensities, durations, heating rates, and mean annual occurrence) and comparing metabolic traits (i.e., standard metabolic rate (SMR), Q10 of SMR, maximum metabolic rate (MMR), aerobic scope, and critical oxygen tension (<em>P</em><sub>crit</sub>)) of winter- and summer-acclimatized convict tang (<em>Acanthurus</em> <em>triostegus</em>) to the combined effects of MHWs and hypoxia. Fish were exposed to one of six MHW treatments with seasonally varying maximum intensities (winter: 24.5, 26.5, 28.5°C; summer: 28.5, 30.5, 32.5°C), representing past and future MHWs under IPCC projections (i.e., +0, +2, +4°C). Surprisingly, MHW characteristics did not significantly differ between seasons, yet SMR was more sensitive to winter MHWs (mean Q10 = 2.92) than summer MHWs (mean Q10 = 1.81), despite higher absolute summer temperatures. Concurrently, MMR increased similarly among winter +2°C and +4°C treatments (i.e., 26.5, 28.5°C) and all summer MHW treatments, suggesting a ceiling for maximal MMR increase. Aerobic scope did not significantly differ between seasons nor among MHW treatments. While mean <em>P</em><sub>crit</sub> did not significantly vary between seasons, warming of +4°C during winter (i.e., 28.5°C) significantly increased <em>P</em><sub>crit</sub> relative to the winter control group. Contrary to the idea of increased sensitivity to MHWs during the warmest time of year, our results reveal heightened sensitivity to the deleterious effects of winter MHWs, and that seasonal acclimatization to warmer summer conditions may bolster metabolic resilience to warming and hypoxia. Consequently, physiological sensitivity to MHWs and hypoxia may extend across larger parts of the year than previously expected, emphasizing the importance of evaluating climate change impacts during cooler seasons when essential fitness-related traits such as reproduction occur in many species.</p>
Three common sampling techniques in Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea: A comparison
<p>Line Intercept Transects (LIT), Point Intercept Transects (PIT) and Photoquadrats (PQ) are the most common quantitative sampling techniques in modern and fossil coral reefs. Data from coral reefs obtained by the different methods are generally compared between various reef ages and localities. Quaternary reefs from warmer interglacial periods, which represent climate scenarios projected for the future, are particularly interesting for comparisons with modern reefs. Importantly, fossil reefs differ from modern reefs because they are diagenetically altered and time-averaged. While several studies have compared different quantitative methods in modern reefs, very few have dealt with the comparability among fossil and between fossil and modern reefs. Here, we compare LIT, PIT at 10-, 20- and 50-cm intervals and PQ in two Pleistocene reef localities in Egypt. We find that alpha diversity, reef cover and community composition are dependent on the method. Results gained with plotless methods (LIT, PIT) differ strongly from results gained with plot methods (PQ). However, coral cover results are similar with LIT and PIT, and community composition is indistinguishable between the two, but alpha diversity depends on the interval used for PIT. We discuss the implications of our findings for comparing coral reefs of various ages and localities. We recommend surveying Pleistocene reefs with PIT at 20 cm intervals. This is because (1) alpha diversity is well captured, (2) the amount of time-averaging recorded by PIT is reduced compared to PQ, (3) the PIT results can be directly compared to reefs analysed by LIT and (4) the method is less time-consuming than LIT and PQ.</p>
Emigration patterns of motile cryptofauna and their implications for trophic functioning in coral reefs
<p>Patterns of movement of marine species can reflect strategies of reproduction and dispersal, species' interactions, trophodynamics, and susceptibility to change, and thus critically inform how we manage populations and ecosystems. On coral reefs, the density and diversity of metazoan taxa is greatest in dead coral and rubble, which is suggested to fuel food webs from the bottom-up. Yet, biomass and secondary productivity in rubble is predominantly available in some of the smallest individuals, limiting how accessible this energy is to higher trophic levels. We address the bioavailability of motile coral reef cryptofauna based on small-scale patterns of emigration in rubble. We deployed modified RUbble Biodiversity Samplers (RUBS) and emergence traps in a shallow rubble patch at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, to detect community-level differences in the directional influx of motile cryptofauna under five habitat accessibility regimes. The mean density (0.13–4.5 ind.cm<sup>-3</sup>) and biomass (0.14–5.2 mg.cm<sup>-3</sup>) of cryptofauna were high and varied depending on microhabitat accessibility. Emergent zooplankton represented a distinct community (dominated by the Appendicularia and Calanoida) with the lowest density and biomass, indicating constraints on nocturnal resource availability. Mean cryptofauna density and biomass were greatest when interstitial access within rubble was blocked, driven by the rapid proliferation of small harpacticoid copepods from the rubble surface, leading to trophic simplification. Individuals with high biomass (e.g., decapods, gobies, and echinoderms) were greatest when interstitial access within rubble was unrestricted. Treatments with a closed rubble surface did not differ from those completely open, suggesting that top-down predation does not diminish rubble-derived resources. Our results show that conspecific cues and species' interactions (e.g., competition and predation) within rubble are most critical in shaping ecological outcomes within the cryptobiome. These findings have implications for prey accessibility through trophic and community size structuring in rubble, which may become increasingly relevant as benthic reef complexity shifts in the Anthropocene.</p>
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs
<p>Rapidly changing conditions alter disturbance patterns, highlighting the need to better understand how the transition from pulse disturbances to more persistent stress will impact ecosystem dynamics. We conducted a global analysis of the impacts of eleven types of disturbances on reef integrity using the rate of change of coral cover as a measure of damage. Then, we evaluated how the magnitude of the damage due to thermal stress, cyclones, and diseases varied among tropical Atlantic and Indo-Pacific reefs and whether the cumulative impact of thermal stress and cyclones was able to modulate the responses of reefs to future events.</p> <p>We found that reef damage largely depends on the condition of a reef before a disturbance, disturbance intensity, and biogeographic region, regardless of the type of disturbance. Changes in coral cover after thermal stress events were largely influenced by the cumulative stress of past disturbances and did not depend on disturbance intensity or initial coral cover, which suggests that an ecological memory is present within coral communities. In contrast, the effect of cyclones (and likely other physical impacts) was primarily modulated by the initial reef condition and did not appear to be influenced by previous impacts.</p> <p>Our findings also underscore that coral reefs can recover if stressful conditions decrease, yet the lack of action to reduce anthropogenic impacts and greenhouse gas emissions continues to trigger reef degradation. We uphold that evidence-based strategies can guide managers to make better decisions to prepare for future disturbances.</p>
Code and data for: Setting sustainable limits on anchoring to improve the resilience of coral reefs
<p>This dataset relates to the journal article: Mason, R. A. B., Bozec, Y.-M., Mumby, P. J. (2023) "Setting sustainable limits on anchoring to improve the resilience of coral reefs" <em>Marine Pollution Bulletin</em> 189: 114721 and is comprised of the following components:</p> <p>- The code and data used to perform the modelling that is described in the journal article. </p> <p>- The data outputs that resulted from running the code.</p> <p>- The code used to make figures using these data outputs, which are illustrated in the journal article</p>
Data from "The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes"
<p>Datasets and scripts generated during and/or analysed in the paper '<strong>The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes</strong>', published in <em>Nature</em>. More details can be found in the README file.</p>
Widespread diversity deficits of coral reef sharks and rays
A global survey of coral reefs reveals that overfishing is driving resident shark species toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch (shark and ray) assemblages. Our species-level analysis revealed global declines of 60 to 73% for five common resident reef shark species and that individual shark species were not detected at 34 to 47% of surveyed reefs. As reefs become more shark-depleted, rays begin to dominate assemblages. Shark-dominated assemblages persist in wealthy nations with strong governance and in highly protected areas, whereas poverty, weak governance, and a lack of shark management are associated with depauperate assemblages mainly composed of rays. Without action to address these diversity deficits, loss of ecological function and ecosystem services will increasingly affect human communities.
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: incorporating species-specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards
<p>Climate change is driving rapid and widespread erosion of the environmental conditions that formerly supported species persistence. Existing projections of climate change typically focus on forecasts of acute environmental anomalies and global extinction risks. The current projections also frequently consider all species within a broad taxonomic group together without differentiating species-specific patterns. Consequently, we still know little about the explicit dimensions of climate risk (i.e., species-specific vulnerability, exposure and hazard) that are vital for predicting future biodiversity responses (e.g., adaptation, migration) and developing management and conservation strategies. Here, we use reef corals as model organisms (n = 741 species) to project the extent of regional and global climate risks of marine organisms into the future. We characterise species-specific vulnerability based on the global geographic range and historical environmental conditions (1900–1994) of each coral species within their ranges and quantify the projected exposure to climate hazard beyond the historical conditions as climate risk. We show that many coral species will experience a complete loss of pre-modern climate analogs at the regional scale and across their entire distributional ranges, and such exposure to hazardous conditions is predicted to pose substantial regional and global climate risks to reef corals. Although high-latitude regions may provide climate refugia for some tropical corals until the mid-21st century, they will not become a universal haven for all corals. Notably, high-latitude specialists and species with small geographic ranges remain particularly vulnerable as they tend to possess limited capacities to avoid climate risks (e.g., via adaptive and migratory responses). Predicted climate risks are amplified substantially under the SSP5-8.5 compared with the SSP1-2.6 scenario, highlighting the need for stringent emission controls. Our projections of both regional and global climate risks offer unique opportunities to facilitate climate action at spatial scales relevant to conservation and management.</p>
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs
<p>Declines in habitat structural complexity have marked ecological outcomes, as currently observed in many of the world's ecosystems. Coral reefs have provided a model for such changes in marine ecosystems, but our understanding has been centred on corals and fishes at broad spatial scales when metazoan diversity on coral reefs is dominated by small cryptic taxa (herein: 'cryptofauna'). Given the paucity of studies and high taxonomic complexity of the cryptofauna, both of which limit a priori hypotheses, we asked whether hierarchical structuring theory provides a compelling framework to impose order and quantify pattern. In general terms, we explored whether cryptic communities are sufficiently described by broad seascape parameters or limited by a set of processes operating at their distinctly nested microhabitat scale. To address this theory and gaps in knowledge for the cryptofauna, we characterised community structure in coral rubble, an eroded coral condition where biodiversity proliferates. Rubble was sampled along a depth and exposure gradient at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, to parameterise environmental and morphological indicators of sessile taxa and motile cryptofauna communities. We employed a hierarchical study framework from microhabitat to seascape scales, which were evaluated using non-structured multivariate analyses and Bayesian structural equation modelling. While the non-structured analyses showed the effects of seascape on the cryptobenthos and its community, this approach overlooked the finer hierarchical patterns in rubble ecology revealed only in the structured model. Seascape parameters (exposure and depth) influenced microhabitat complexity (i.e., rubble branchiness), which determined the cover of sessile organisms on rubble pieces, which shaped the motile cryptofauna community. Rubble is likely to be increasingly prevalent on coral reefs in the Anthropocene and is typically associated with low seascape-level complexity and reduced macrofaunal richness. Parallel with hierarchical structuring theory, we show a similar response operating at the microhabitat scale whereby low rubble complexity (i.e., branchiness) reduces cryptobenthic structure, diversity and size spectra. We expect there may be an initial increase in biodiversity and trophodynamic processes derived from branching rubble, but a delay in ecosystem-scale outcomes if coral, and thus rubble, generation and complexity cannot be sustained in a future ocean.</p>
High-latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts
<p><span>Anthropogenic impacts are typically detrimental to tropical coral reefs, but the effect of increasing environmental stress and variability on the size structure of coral communities remains poorly understood. This limits our ability to effectively conserve coral reef ecosystems because size-specific dynamics are rarely incorporated. Our aim is to quantify variation in the size structure of coral populations across 20 sites along a tropical-to-subtropical environmental gradient on the east coast of Australia (~23</span><span>°</span><span>S to 30</span><span>°</span><span>S), to determine how size structure changes with a gradient of sea surface temperature, turbidity, productivity and light levels. We use two approaches: 1) linear regression with summary statistics (such as median size) as response variables, a method frequently favoured by ecologists; and 2) compositional functional regression, a novel method using entire size-frequency distributions as response variables. We then predict coral population size structure with increasing environmental stress and variability. Together, we find fewer but larger coral colonies in marginal reefs, where conditions are typically more variable and stressful, than in tropical reefs.</span> <span>Our model predicts that coral populations may become gradually dominated by larger colonies (> 148 cm<sup>2</sup>) with increasing environmental stress. Fewer but bigger corals suggest low survival of smaller corals, slow growth, and / or poor recruitment. This finding is concerning for the future of coral reefs, as it implies that current marginal populations, or future reefs in increasingly stressful environmental conditions may have low recovery potential. We highlight the importance of continuously monitoring changes to population structure over biogeographic scales.</span></p>
Winners and losers of reef flattening: An assessment of coral reef fish species and traits
<p>Anthropogenic stressors are causing widespread coral mortality, leading to loss of coral cover and decreased structural complexity that threatens reef biodiversity, functioning, and ecosystem services. Reef fishes are intimately linked to coral reef complexity, but we lack a generic understanding of which species are particularly affected by reef flattening and what traits make them susceptible. We used extensive species- and trait-based analyses to build a framework for western Atlantic fish association with both structural complexity and coral cover to better understand the implications of reef degradation. These analyses also investigated the relative importance of live coral versus the value of the structure it provides to reef fishes. We modeled how 25 biophysical and anthropogenic factors correlated with the densities of 109 fish species across 3292 Floridian reef sites. The importance of a metric of structural complexity and coral cover to the abundance of each species was then isolated. Species with positive associations were categorized as likely future 'losers' and negative associations as 'winners'. We showed that structure loss was more critical than loss of coral cover, as 53% of species were predicted as losers on low-relief reefs, while only 11% were losers with decreased coral cover. We found morphological, behavioral, and ecological traits mediate species' responses to reef degradation, and shared evolutionary history is unlikely to be a strong driver of trait relationships. Eight traits explained 79.7% of variation in species' associations with relief and six traits explained 27.8% of associations with coral cover. Smaller, streamlined, habitat and trophic generalists are more likely winners on flattened reefs and large-bodied predators and species with deeper bodies and intermediate caudal fin shapes are likely losers. Identifying these important traits provides insight into mechanisms that may link fish and complex habitats, which allows us to better predict assemblage-wide responses to future reef flattening.</p>
Algal symbiont diversity in Acropora muricata from the extreme reef of Bouraké associated with resistance to coral bleaching
<p>Widespread coral bleaching has generally been linked to high water temperatures at larger geographic scale. However, teh bleaching response can be highly variable aming individuals of the same species, between different species, and across localities; what causes this variability remais unresolved. Here, we tracked bleached and non-bleached colonies of <em>Acropora muricata </em>to see if they recovered or died following a stress event inside the semi-enclosed lagoon of Bouraké (New Caledonia), where corals are long-term acclimatized to extreme conditions of temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen, and at a nearby control reef. We describe Symbiodiniaceae community changes, metabolic responses, and energetical reserves (12 physiological traits evaluated) during La Niña warm and rainy summer in 2021. Widespread coral bleaching (score 1 and 2 on coral colour health chart) was observed only in Bouraké, likely due to the combination of the high temperatures (up to 32 <sup>o</sup>C) and heavy rain. All colonies (i.e., Bouraké and reference site) had <em>Cladocopium </em> as their main genera. Unbleached colonies in Bouraké had a specific ITS2-type profile (proxies for Symbiodiniaceae genotypes), while the bleached colonies in Bouraké had the same ITS2-type profile of control colonies during the stress event. After four months, teh few bleached colonies thata survived acquired the same ITS2 type profiles of the unbleached resistant colonies. In terms of physiological performances, all bleached corals showed metabolic depression (e.g., P<sub>gross </sub>and R<sub>dark</sub>). In contrast, unbleahed colonies in Bouraké maintained higher metabolic rates and energetic reserves compared to control corals. Our study suggests that <em>Acropora muricata</em> enhanced their resistance to bleaching thanks to specific Symbiodiniaceae, while energetic reserves may increase their resilience after stress. </p>
Data from: Fossil dermal denticles reveal the pre-exploitation baseline of a Caribbean coral reef shark community
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Coral bleaching due to cold stress on a central Red Sea reef flat
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Symbiodiniaceae ITS2 sequences from reef corals in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
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