A5022797323- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2023-2024
Qatar University
2020-2024
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
2023
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2023
NOAA National Ocean Service
2023
Nova Southeastern University
2017-2019
Abstract The loss of functional and accreting coral reefs reduces coastal protection resilience for tropical coastlines. Coral restoration has potential recovering healthy that can mitigate risks from hazards increase sustainability. However, scaling up to the large extent needed requires integrated application principles engineering, hydrodynamics, ecology across multiple spatial scales, as well filling missing knowledge gaps disciplines. This synthesis aims identify how scientific...
Abstract Threatened Caribbean coral communities can benefit from high‐resolution genetic data used to inform management and conservation action. We use Genotyping by Sequencing ( GBS ) investigate patterns in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis , across Florida Reef Tract FRT western Caribbean. Results show extensive population structure at regional scales resolve previously unknown within . Different regions also exhibit up threefold differences diversity (He), suggesting targeted...
In recent decades, the Florida reef tract has lost over 95% of its coral cover. Although isolated assemblages persist, restoration programs are attempting to recover local populations. Listed as threatened under Endangered Species Act, Acropora cervicornis is most widely targeted species for in Florida. Yet strategies still maturing enhance survival nursery‐reared outplants A. colonies on natural reefs. This study examined 22,634 raised nurseries along and outplanted six habitats seven...
Acropora cervicornis is the most widely used coral species for reef restoration in greater Caribbean. However, outplanting methodologies (e.g., colony density, size, host genotype, and attachment technique) vary greatly, to date have not been evaluated optimality across multiple sites. Two experiments were completed during this study, first effects of technique, genotype by 405 A. colonies, from ten genotypes, four size classes, three techniques (epoxy, nail cable tie, or puck) Colony...
Sexual reproduction is a crucial process for reef building coral populations to maximize genetic diversity and recover from large scale disturbances. Mass spawning events by Acropora species represent critical opportunities persist, that increasingly exploited actively restore degraded reefs. However, the timing predictive capacity of throughout broad thermal environmental regime Red Sea – region also undergoing significant development active restoration remains patchy. We, therefore,...
Corals, specifically the Atlantic staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, have become more vulnerable to disturbance events such as storms and disease predation outbreaks. Since its population declines due a wide spread event in early 1980s, limited long-term monitoring studies describing impact of current threats potential recovery been completed. The aim this study was document impacts environmental (tropical storms, increased wind) biological (disease predation) on A. cervicornis further...
Atlantic reef-building corals and coral reefs continue to experience extensive decline due increased stressors related climate change, disease, pollution, numerous anthropogenic threats. To understand the impact of ocean warming reef loss on estimated extinction risk shallow water scleractinians milleporids, all 85 valid species were reassessed under IUCN Red List Categories Criteria, updating previous assessment published in 2008. For present assessment, individual declines based modeled...
Abstract The Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis , was once a dominant habitat creating but its populations have declined dramatically in recent decades. Numerous restoration efforts now utilize coral gardening techniques to cultivate this species, growing colonies on fixed structures or from line/suspended nurseries. Line nurseries become increasingly popular because of their small footprint and ease use, replacing many To evaluate the efficacy line technique, study evaluated...
The ever-increasing need for coral restoration as a tool available to mitigate reef declines and aid in the recovery of lost ecosystem services requires improving performance over time through an adaptive management framework evaluate status programs using uniform, consistent metrics. An evaluation tool, presented herein, allows practitioners managers self-evaluate robustness each project identify successful metrics, those metrics that special attention, changes strategies can improve...
Ocean warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, prompting a need accurately monitor in situ temperatures. Advancements sensing technologies have led proliferation of temperature loggers being deployed globally. However, appropriate deployment loggers–essential for measurement accuracy an ecosystem where changes 1ºC can cause widespread mortality–is often overlooked. For example, direct sunlight are known overestimate temperature, but prevalence shading unknown. Here, we survey recent...