Protected Areas Moderate Diseases of Reef-Building Corals

Phosphomonoesterases in Reef-Building Corals.

Small Marine Protected Areas in Fiji Provide Refuge for Reef Fish Assemblages, Feeding Groups, and Corals

The establishment of no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) on coral reefs is a common management strategy for conserving the diversity, abundance, and biomass of reef organisms. Generally, well-managed and enforced MPAs can increase or maintain the diversity and function of the enclosed coral reef, with some of the benefits extending to adjacent non-protected reefs. A fundamental question in co...

Application of 1H-NMR Metabolomic Profiling for Reef-Building Corals

In light of global reef decline new methods to accurately, cheaply, and quickly evaluate coral metabolic states are needed to assess reef health. Metabolomic profiling can describe the response of individuals to disturbance (i.e., shifts in environmental conditions) across biological models and is a powerful approach for characterizing and comparing coral metabolism. For the first time, we asse...

Multilocus Adaptation Associated with Heat Resistance in Reef-Building Corals

The evolution of tolerance to future climate change depends on the standing stock of genetic variation for resistance to climate-related impacts, but genes contributing to climate tolerance in wild populations are poorly described in number and effect. Physiology and gene expression patterns have shown that corals living in naturally high-temperature microclimates are more resistant to bleachin...

Coral reef quality and recreation fees in marine protected areas

1 Life Sciences Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 2 Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK 3 Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA 4 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax B3H 4J1, Canada 5 S...