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• Resilience in carbonate production despite three coral bleaching events in 5 years on an inshore patch reef in the Florida Keys

  Authors:Derek P. Manzello, Ian C. Enochs, Graham Kolodziej, Renee Carlton, and Lauren ValentinoFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 165, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  May 8, 20187,153 words Report 1490LThe persistence of coral reef frameworks requires that calcium carbonate (CaCO.sub.3) production by corals and other calcifiers outpaces CaCO.sub.3 loss via physical, chemical, and biological erosion. Coral bleaching...

• Intraspecific variation in the response of the scleractinian coral Acropora digitifera to ocean acidification

  Authors:Haruko Kurihara, Asami Takahashi, Alejandro Reyes-Bermudez, and Michio HidakaFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 165, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 30, 20188,736 words Report 1490LAuthor(s): Haruko Kurihara 1 , Asami Takahashi 1 , Alejandro Reyes-Bermudez 1 2 , Michio Hidaka 1 Author Affiliations: (1) Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Science, Faculty of Science, University of...

• Direct determination of the timing of sea level change during termination II

  Authors:Christina D. Gallup, H. Cheng, F.W. Taylor, and R.L. EdwardsFrom:Science (Vol. 295, Issue 5553) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 11, 20023,205 words Article An outcrop within the last interglacial terrace on Barbados contains corals that grew during the penultimate deglaciation, or Termination II. We used combined [sup.230]Th and [sup.231]Pa dating to determine that they...

• Warm waters, bleached corals

  Author:Leslie RobertsFrom:Science (Vol. 250, Issue 4978) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 12, 1990908 words Article Throughout the Caribbean, the corals are bleaching again, turning a ghostly white - a sign of severe stress. Though it is still early, it looks as if this current episode may rival or even surpass the one in 1987, which...

• Soft Coral Sarcophyton (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) Species Diversity and Chemotypes

  Authors:Satoe Aratake, Tomohiko Tomura, Seikoh Saitoh, Ryouma Yokokura, Yuichi Kawanishi, Ryuichi Shinjo, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 17, 20125,680 words Article 1400LAuthor(s): Satoe Aratake 1 , Tomohiko Tomura 1 , Seikoh Saitoh 2 , Ryouma Yokokura 3 , Yuichi Kawanishi 2 , Ryuichi Shinjo 4 , James Davis Reimer 5 , Junichi Tanaka 3 , Hideaki Maekawa 2 , * Introduction Soft...

• A Snapshot of a Coral "Holobiont": A Transcriptome Assembly of the Scleractinian Coral, Porites, Captures a Wide Variety of Genes from Both the Host and Symbiotic Zooxanthellae

  Authors:Chuya Shinzato, Mayuri Inoue, and Makoto KusakabeFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 15, 20146,924 words Article 1370LAuthor(s): Chuya Shinzato 1,*, Mayuri Inoue 2, Makoto Kusakabe 2 Introduction Coral reefs are estimated to harbor roughly one-third of all described marine species, and their productivity supports approximately...

• First Characterization of Bacterial Pathogen, Vibrio alginolyticus, for Porites andrewsi White Syndrome in the South China Sea

  From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 24, 20135,506 words Article 1580LIntroduction Coral disease, caused by different microbes, is a progressing threat to the reefs in all three major oceans around the world [1,2]. The most serious diseases, tissue loss disease termed white syndromes...

• Interaction between the ENSO and the Asian monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate

  Authors:C.D. Charles, D.E. Hunter, and Richard G. FairbanksFrom:Science (Vol. 277, Issue 5328) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 15, 19973,230 words Article The oxygen isotopic composition of a banded coral from the western equatorial Indian Ocean provides a 150-year-long history of the relation between the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the Asian...

• A review of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Hawaii and adjacent seamounts: the genus Narella Gray, 1870 (1)

  Authors:Stephen D. Cairns and Frederick M. BayerFrom:Pacific Science (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20089,198 words Article 1230LAbstract: The nine Hawaiian species of Narella are revised, including the description of six new species. All species but one (N. ornata) are described and illustrated using SEM; all species are keyed and included in a...

• A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment, and disturbance at several scales in space and time

  Authors:Joseph H. Connell, Terence P. Hughes, and Carden C. WallaceFrom:Ecological Monographs (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 199718,512 words Article Observations over a 30-yr period revealed a considerable degree of natural variation in the abundance of corals on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Cover ranged from [is less than] 0.1% to [is...

• Degree and pattern of gene flow in several scleractinian corals in the Ryukyu archipelago, Southern Japan (1)

  Author:Akira NishikawaFrom:Pacific Science (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20083,753 words Report 1450LAbstract: Dispersal distance of planktonic larvae of coral reef organisms is influenced by their ecological characteristics and environmental factors such as current flow and physical structure of reefs. This study...

• A sparsely encrusted hardground with abundant Trypanites borings from the Llandovery of the Velise River, western Estonia (Baltica)/Horedalt asustatud Trypanites'e kaikudega tsementeerunud Llandovery-aegne kihipind Laane-Eestist Velise joe aarest

  Authors:Olev Vinn and Ursula ToomFrom:Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20163,624 words Report 1220LThe Paardu hardground from the Telychian (Rumba Formation) of western Estonia is sparsely encrusted (0.4% of the studied surface) by possible tabulate corals, sheet-like bryozoans and discoidal echinoderm holdfasts....

• Effects of pC[O.sub.2] on the interaction between an excavating sponge, Cliona varians, and a hermatypic coral, Porites furcata

  Authors:Amber D. Stubler, Bradley T. Furman, and Bradley J. PetersonFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 161, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20145,673 words Report 1440LRising dissolved pC[O.sub.2] is a mounting threat to coral reef ecosystems. While the biological and physiological impacts of increased pC[O.sub.2] are well documented for many hermatypic corals, the potential effects...

• Deep-sequencing method for quantifying background abundances of Symbiodinium types: exploring the rare Symbiodinium biosphere in reef-building corals

  Authors:Kate M. Quigley, Sarah W. Davies, Carly D. Kenkel, Bette L. Willis, Mikhail V. Matz, and Line K. BayFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 201411,213 words Report 1620LThe capacity of reef-building corals to associate with environmentally-appropriate types of endosymbionts from the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium contributes significantly to their success at local scales....

• The impacts of ex situ transplantation on the physiology of the Taiwanese reef-building coral Seriatopora hystrix

  Authors:Anderson B. Mayfield, Tung-Yung Fan, and Chii-Shiarng ChenFrom:Journal of Marine BiologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20135,941 words Report 1680LWe sought to determine whether the Indo-Pacific reef-building coral Seriatopora hystrix performs in a similar manner in the laboratory as it does in situ by measuring Symbiodinium density, chlorophyll a (chl-a)...

• Sea whip coral Leptogorgia virgulata in the Mid-Atlantic Bight: Colony complexity, age, and growth.

  Authors:Rebecca P. Wenker and Bradley G. StevensFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 4, 20209,984 words Article 1430LSea whip coral Leptogorgia virgulata are a common structural component of both natural and artificial hard-bottom reef habitats in the mid-Atlantic region and may serve as essential habitat for commercially valuable...

• Corals and their potential applications to integrative medicine

  Authors:Edwin L. Cooper, Kyle Hirabayashi, Kevin B. Strychar, and Paul W. SammarcoFrom:Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Vol. 2014) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20144,102 words Report 1400LOver the last few years, we have pursued the use and exploitation of invertebrate immune systems, most notably their humoral products, to determine what effects their complex molecules might exert on humans,...

• A quest for resilient reefs: corals are threatened by the ocean's changing chemistry

  Author:Lonny LippsettFrom:Oceanus (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20131,234 words Interview 1400LAnne Cohen's forte is corals. From the skeletons of massive corals, she has extracted long-term records of changing ocean and climate conditions. In lab experiments and expeditions, she is investigating how these...

• Coral reefs as a source of climate-active aerosols.

  Authors:Rebecca L. Jackson, Albert J. Gabric, and Roger CroppFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 29, 202013,245 words Article 1500LWe review the evidence for bio-regulation by coral reefs of local climate through stress-induced emissions of aerosol precursors, such as dimethylsulfide. This is an issue that goes to the core of the coral ecosystem's...

• Fish predation hinders the success of coral restoration efforts using fragmented massive corals.

  Authors:Gammon Koval, Nicolas Rivas, Martine D'Alessandro, Dalton Hesley, Rolando Santos, and Diego LirmanFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2, 20208,130 words Article 1600LAs coral reefs continue to decline globally, coral restoration practitioners have explored various approaches to return coral cover and diversity to decimated reefs. While branching coral species have long been the focus...