Diseases of Coral Reef Organisms

Peters, Esther C.

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7249-5_8

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“…For successful management of disease outbreaks, prediction or early detection, rapid and accurate diagnosis and mitigation strategies are essential (for reviews see Beeden et al, 2012;Burge et al, 2014;Groner et al, 2016). Management of outbreaks is challenged by the fact that there are more than 800 reef-building coral species, and interactions within the holobiont could be highly species specific, leading to varying disease susceptibility and mitigation effectiveness across species (Carpenter et al, 2008;Peters, 2015;Roder et al, 2014). However, progress is being made in developing predictive tools (e.g., for WS and BBD; Chen et al, 2017;Maynard et al, 2011;), diagnosis (Burge et al, 2016, and active intervention (e.g., selective breeding of host, phage therapies to known pathogens; Atad et al, 2012;Efrony et al, 2007;Groner et al, 2016;van Oppen et al, 2015;2017) is an emerging field of study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling causation: complex roles of coral‐associated microorganisms in disease

Mera

Bourne

2017

Environmental Microbiology

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Summary Rapidly changing climate regimes combined with other anthropogenic pressures are implicated in increased disease epizootics among reef building corals, resulting in changing habitat structure. These accumulated stressors directly contribute to disease outbreaks by compromising the coral host immune system, modulating virulence of microbial pathogens and/or disrupting the balance within the microbiome of the holobiont. Disentangling coral disease causation has been challenging, and while progress has been made for certain diseases in terms of the roles the associated microorganisms play, it is evident that like in other marine or terrestrial systems, compromised host health cannot always be attributed to a single causative agent. Here, we summarize the current state in knowledge of microbial induced coral diseases, and discuss challenges and strategies to further disentangle disease causation. With the major environmental pressures coral reefs face over the next century, understanding interactions between host, environmental and microbial causative agent(s) that lead to disease, is still a priority to enable development of effective strategies for building resilience into coral populations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling causation: complex roles of coral‐associated microorganisms in disease

Mera

Bourne

2017

Environmental Microbiology

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“…High levels of abundance can indicate eutrophication and/or underrepresentation of herbivorous fish (Done, 1992;Hughes, 1994;Bellwood et al, 2004;Hoegh-Guldberg, 2006 (Jompa and McCook, 2002;Nugues and Roberts, 2003), disrupt or inhibit coral recruitment (Birkeland, 1977;Richmond, 1997;Birrell et al, 2005) and may also store bacteria that are pathogenic for corals (Smith et al, 2006 Paul et al, 2005) and may disrupt or inhibit coral recruitment (Birkeland, 1977). They are associated with coral diseases (Peters, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reef quality criteria for marine reserve selection: an example from eastern Brazil

Cruz

Kikuchi

Leão

et al. 2013

Aquatic Conservation

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ABSTRACT1. A novel protocol was developed for ecological prioritization of coral reefs for inclusion in a marine reserve network. Standard benthic survey data were normalized and combined in a conservation priority index (CPI) which rates individual candidate sites according to their ecological values and their potential contributions to an effective network.2. The CPI differentiates between sites on the basis of strength or weakness of surrogates for desirable attributes such as benthic biodiversity, reef-building capacity and hard-coral resilience.3. Biodiversity and reef-building attributes (more is better) were assigned progressive weightings (high abundance, high score), whereas neutral or detrimental attributes (less is better) were assigned regressive weightings (high abundance, low score).4. Abundance of small corals (new recruits and remnants) was included as an indicator of a site's potential for recovery following disturbance.5. The CPI rankings were used in conjunction with multidimensional scaling to prioritize candidate sites for a proposed reserve network near Salvador, Brazil. The information is complementary to considerations of existing uses and socio-economic considerations, in the prioritization of reefs for protection.6. The approach ensured that ecological inputs to the broader marine spatial planning process embraced both representativeness of biodiversity per se and the investigator's evaluation of key qualitative site attributes (amount, size, and resilience indicators for the critical architectural components hard coral and encrusting coralline algae).

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“…Even after 20 years, the etiology of the WBD epizootic remains unknown, and recent reports reveal that there may be multiple varieties of the disease (or white syndromes) with differing characteristics and pathologies (Antonius 1981;Gladfelter 1982;Peters, Yevich, and Oprandy 1983;Peters and McCarty 1996;Peters 1997;Santavy and Peters 1997;Richardson 1998;Ritchie and Smith 1998;Richardson and Aronson 2002). WBD can generally be recognized as areas of bare skeleton, sometimes bordered by narrow bands of disintegrating, necrotic coral tissue, on otherwise healthy-looking, golden-brown Acropora branches.…”

Section: White-band Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%