Coral disease hotspots in the Caribbean
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DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1814
Abstract: Recent outbreaks of coral diseases in the Caribbean have been linked to increasingly stressful sea-surface temperatures (SSTs). Yet, ocean warming is spatially heterogeneous and therefore has the potential to lead to hotspots of disease activity.… read more here.
Keywords: risk; disease; yellow band; band disease ... See more keywords
Ecology, histopathology, and microbial ecology of a white-band disease outbreak in the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis.
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DOI: 10.3354/dao03441
Abstract: This study is a multi-pronged description of a temperature-induced outbreak of white-band disease (WBD) that occurred in Acropora cervicornis off northern Miami Beach, Florida (USA), from July to October 2014. We describe the ecology of… read more here.
Keywords: histopathology; band disease; white band; ecology ... See more keywords