A5049438117- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Offshore Engineering and Technologies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Plant and animal studies
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories
2016-2025
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2012-2024
Ecosystem Sciences
2023
University of Miami
2011-2020
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2020
A Long Collapse Coral reefs are threatened by global warming and ocean acidification, so it is important to understand better how why environmental changes have affected them in the past. Toth et al. (p. 81 ) present a 6000-year-long record of coral off coast Panama, Central America. The effectively stopped growing for approximately 2600 years, beginning around 4000 years ago. This collapse reef system was probably caused increased variability ENSO, El Nino–Southern Oscillation. If strength...
Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to reduce the calcification rates of marine organisms, yet we have little understanding how OA will manifest within dynamic, real-world systems. Natural CO2, alkalinity, and salinity gradients can significantly alter local carbonate chemistry, thereby create a range susceptibility for different ecosystems OA. As such, there need characterize this natural variability seawater especially coastal ecosystems. Since 2009, chemistry data been collected on...
Ocean acidification affects a wide diversity of marine organisms and is particular concern for vulnerable larval stages critical to population replenishment connectivity. Whereas it well known that ocean will negatively affect range calcareous taxa, the study fishes more limited in both depth understanding species. We used new 3D microcomputed tomography conduct situ analysis impact on otolith (ear stone) size density cobia (Rachycentron canadum), large, economically important, pantropical...
Global climate change threatens coral growth and reef ecosystem health via ocean warming acidification (OA). Whereas the negative impacts of these stressors are increasingly well-documented, studies identifying pathways to resilience still poorly understood. Heterotrophy has been shown help corals experiencing decreases in due either thermal or OA stress; however, mechanism by which it mitigates remains unclear. This study tested ability heterotrophy mitigate reductions stress critically...
Abstract Identifying which factors lead to coral bleaching resistance is a priority given the global decline of reefs with ocean warming. During second year back‐to‐back events in Florida Keys 2014 and 2015, we characterized key environmental biological associated resilience threatened reef‐building Orbicella faveolata . Ten (five inshore, five offshore, 179 corals total) were sampled during (September 2015) recovery (May 2016). Corals genotyped 2b RAD profiled for algal symbiont abundance...
Worldwide, coral reef ecosystems are experiencing increasing pressure from a variety of anthropogenic perturbations including ocean warming and acidification, increased sedimentation, eutrophication, overfishing, which could shift reefs to condition net calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dissolution erosion. Herein, we determine the calcification potential relative balance organic carbon metabolism (net community production; NCP) inorganic calcification; NCC) within 23 locations across globe. In...
Annual coral bleaching events, which are predicted to occur as early the next decade in Florida Keys, expected cause catastrophic mortality. Despite this, there is little field data on how Caribbean communities respond annual thermal stress events. At Cheeca Rocks, an inshore patch reef near Islamorada, FL, condition of 4234 colonies was followed over 2 yr subsequent 2014 and 2015, two hottest summers record for Keys. In 2014, this site experienced 7.7 degree heating weeks (DHW) a result...
Abstract Anthropogenic CO 2 is causing warming and ocean acidification. Coral reefs are being severely impacted, yet confusion lingers regarding how will respond to these stressors over this century. Since the 1982–1983 El Niño–Southern Oscillation event, persistence of around Galápagos Islands has differed across an acidification gradient. Reefs disappeared where pH < 8.0 aragonite saturation state (Ω arag ) ≤ 3 have not recovered, whereas one reef persisted > Ω 3. Where upwelling...
The increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide seawater, termed ocean acidification (OA), depresses calcification rates of coral and algae, may contribute toward reef ecosystem degradation. To test how future OA conditions will influence biologically-mediated dissolution (bioerosion) by the common Caribbean boring sponge Pione lampa (de Laubenfels, 1950), we conducted a series carefully controlled incubations used changes total alkalinity (TA) to calculate calcium carbonate dissolution. We...
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed in 2014 near Virginia Key Miami-Dade County, Florida. Field sampling, lab experiments, and modeling approaches have suggested that reef sediments may play a role SCTLD transmission, though positive link has not been tested experimentally. We conducted an ex situ transmission assay using statistically-independent apparatus to test whether can transmit the absence of direct contact between diseased healthy tissue. evaluated two methods...
Abstract The eastern tropical Pacific is oceanographically unfavorable for coral-reef development. Nevertheless, reefs have persisted there the last 7000 years. Rates of vertical accretion during Holocene been similar in strong-upwelling Gulf Panamá (GoP) and adjacent, weak-upwelling Chiriquí (GoC); however, seasonal upwelling GoP exacerbated a climate-driven hiatus reef development late Holocene. situation now reversed currently buffers thermal stress, creating refuge coral growth. We...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 438:105-118 (2011) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09259 Environmental determinants of motile cryptofauna on an eastern Pacific coral reef Ian C. Enochs1,2,*, Lauren T. Toth3, Viktor W. Brandtneris4, Jamie Afflerbach4, Derek P. Manzello1,2 1Cooperative Institute for and Atmospheric Sciences, Rosenstiel...
Coral reefs are dynamic ecosystems known for decades to be endangered due, in large part, anthropogenic impacts from land-based sources of pollution (LBSP). In this study, we utilized an Illumina-based next-generation sequencing approach characterize prokaryotic and fungal communities samples collected off the southeast coast Florida. Water coastal inlet discharges, oceanic outfalls municipal wastewater treatment plants, treated effluent before discharge, open ocean samples, coral tissue...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 521:81-89 (2015) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11085 Recent decade of growth and calcification Orbicella faveolata in Florida Keys: an inshore-offshore comparison Derek P. Manzello1,*, Ian C. Enochs1,2, Graham Kolodziej1,2, Renée Carlton1,2 1Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratories (AOML),...
Corals are acclimatized to populate dynamic habitats that neighbour coral reefs. Habitats such as seagrass beds exhibit broad diel changes in temperature and pH routinely expose corals conditions predicted for reefs over the next 50-100 years. However, whether acclimatization effectively enhances physiological tolerance to, hence provides refuge against, future climate scenarios remains unknown. Also, living low-variance can tolerate present-day high-variance untested. We experimentally...
The calcification and extension rates of two species scleractinian coral (Montastraea cavernosa, Porites astreoides) were measured in corals experimentally transplanted to paired inshore offshore locations the Upper, Middle, Lower Florida Keys from 2010 2011. Growth compared with respect 1) shelf location, 2) species, 3) region, 4) temperature. Transplanted on reefs generally calcified less than those at sites, but these differences only significant a few cases. This difference growth is...