The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

Madin, Joshua S.; Anderson, Kristen D.; Andreasen, Magnus Heide; Bridge, Tom C. L.; Cairns, Stephen D.; Connolly, Sean R.; Darling, Emily S.; Díaz, Marcela; Falster, Daniel S.; Franklin, Erik C.; Gates, Ruth D.; Hoogenboom, Mia O.; Huang, Danwei; Keith, Sally A.; Kosnik, Matthew A.; Kuo, Chao Yang; Lough, Janice; Lovelock, Catherine E.; Luiz, Osmar J.; Martinelli, Julieta C.; Mizerek, Toni; Pandolfi, John M.; Pochon, Xavier; Pratchett, Morgan S.; Putnam, Hollie M.; Roberts, Thomas E.; Stat, Michael; Wallace, Carden C.; Widman, Elizabeth; Baird, Andrew H.

doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.17

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“…All are considered common on the Great Barrier Reef (Madin et al, 2016) and are typically abundant on the shallow reef-flat and/or reef-crest of Heron Reef. These corals are typically dominated by Symbiodinium that broadly fall within clade C (LaJeunesse et al, 2003), and span a range of thermal tolerances that have previously been characterized in studies at Heron Reef (Table 1).…”

Section: Species Collection and Maintenancementioning

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“…Light response curves (applying actinic light to coral tissues incrementally in List of 10 coral species used in this study that are common on the Great Barrier Reef (https://coraltraits.org, Madin et al, 2016). Growth forms, reproductive mode (spawning or brooding), and strategy of Symbiodinium transmission (horizontal or vertical) were also retrieved from Madin et al (2016).…”

Section: Seasonal Changes In Symbiodinium Photochemical Pathwaysmentioning

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Utility of Photochemical Traits as Diagnostics of Thermal Tolerance amongst Great Barrier Reef Corals

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Light availability is considered a key factor regulating the thermal sensitivity of reef building corals, where excessive excitation of photosystem II (PSII) further exacerbates pressure on photochemical pathways already compromised by heat stress. Coral symbionts acclimate to changes in light availability (photoacclimation) by continually fine-tuning the photochemical operating efficiency of PSII. However, how this process adjusts throughout the warmest months in naturally heat-tolerant or sensitive species is unknown, and whether this influences the capacity to tolerate transient heat stress is untested. We therefore examined the PSII photophysiology of 10 coral species (with known thermal tolerances) from shallow reef environments at Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia), in spring (October-November, 2015) vs. summer (February-March, 2016). Corals were maintained in flow-through aquaria and rapid light curve (RLC) protocols using pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry captured changes in the PSII photoacclimation strategy, characterized as the minimum saturating irradiance (E k ), and the extent of photochemical ([1 -C], operating efficiency) vs. non-photochemical ([1 -Q]) energy dissipation. Values of E k across species were >2-fold higher in all coral species in spring, consistent with a climate of higher overall light exposure (i.e., higher PAR from lower cloud cover, rainfall and wind speed) compared with summer. Summer decreases in E k were combined with a shift toward preferential photochemical quenching in all species. All coral species were subsequently subjected to thermal stress assays. An equivalent temperature-ramping profile of 1 • C increase per day and then maintenance at 32 • C was applied in each season. Despite the significant seasonal photoacclimation, the species hierarchy of thermal tolerance [maximum quantum yields of PSII (F v /F m ), monitored at dawn and dusk] did not shift between seasons, except for Pocillopora damicornis (faster declines in summer) and Stylophora pistillata (total mortality in spring). Furthermore, the strategy for dealing with light energy (i.e., preferential photochemical vs. non-photochemical quenching) was unchanged for thermally tolerant species across seasons, whereas thermally sensitive species switched between preferential [1 -Q] and [1 -C] from spring to summer. We discuss how such traits can potentially be used as a diagnostic of thermal tolerance under non-stressed conditions.

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Section: Seasonal Changes In Symbiodinium Photochemical Pathwaysmentioning

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Utility of Photochemical Traits as Diagnostics of Thermal Tolerance amongst Great Barrier Reef Corals

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“…Given the recent mass bleaching occurring on reefs (Hughes et al, 2017), corals will likely continue to be a useful and popular system for symbiosis and dysbiosis research. There are number of resources available to further promote study of the coral microbiome, including integrated databases (Franklin et al, 2012;Madin et al, 2016), a growing number of host and microbial genomes (Shinzato et al, 2011;Bayer et al, 2012;Neave et al, 2017), and laboratory amendable "model" systems (Weis et al, 2008;Baumgarten et al, 2015).…”

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Marine Animal Microbiomes: Toward Understanding Host–Microbiome Interactions in a Changing Ocean

2017

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All animals on Earth form associations with microorganisms, including protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. In the ocean, animal-microbial relationships were historically explored in single host-symbiont systems. However, new explorations into the diversity of microorganisms associating with diverse marine animal hosts is moving the field into studies that address interactions between the animal host and a more multi-member microbiome. The potential for microbiomes to influence the health, physiology, behavior, and ecology of marine animals could alter current understandings of how marine animals adapt to change, and especially the growing climate-related and anthropogenic-induced changes already impacting the ocean environment. This review explores the nature of marine animal-microbiome relationships and interactions, and possible factors that may shift associations from symbiotic to dissociated states. I present a brief review of current microbiome research and opportunities, using examples of select marine animals that span diverse phyla within the Animalia, including systems that are more and less developed for symbiosis research, including two represented in my own research program. Lastly, I consider challenges and emerging solutions for moving these and other study systems into a more detailed understanding of host-microbiome interactions within a changing ocean.

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“…Communication pathways include skeletal features that allow the gastrovascular cavities of neighboring polyps to be continuous, such as skeletal voids (perforate skeleton, commonly found in genera such as Acropora, Montipora, and Porites; van Woesik et al 2013) that allow tissue to transverse through the skeleton (Yost et al 2013), or inter-polyp alignment of septa (continuity of costosepta, such as the confluent costosepta of Favites abdita or Favites halicora; Huang et al 2014) that demonstrate alignment of mesenteries and may allow tissue connections to continue above the surface of the skeleton (Coates & Oliver 1973, Coates & Jackson 1987. Inferences of reliance and coordination among polyps include polymorphic calices that reflect differential functions of polyps and division of labor among colonial modules (polymorphic polyps, such as the apical polyps of Acropora at the growing tips of branches that are larger, have fewer tentacles, lower Symbiodinium density, and no gonads compared to the axial polyps; Oliver 1984, Hemond et al 2014) and complex colony morphologies that require coordinated skeletal construction to maintain colony dimensions, symmetry, and balance (growth form, such as branching Acropora palmata or Seriatopora caliendrum; Madin et al 2016) (Coates & Oliver 1973, Coates & Jackson 1987. These characters constitute morphological evidence of physiological integration (inferred), rather than direct measurements of interpolypoidal movements of materials or chemical signals (experimentally determined; e.g.…”

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Physiological integration of coral colonies is correlated with bleaching resistance

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Osborn³

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Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Inter-module physiological integration of colonial organisms can facilitate colony-wide coordinated responses to stimuli that strengthen colony fitness and stress resistance. In scleractinian corals, whose colonial integration ranges from isolated polyps to a seamless continuum of polyp structures and functions, this coordination improves re sponses to injury, predation, disease, and stress and may be one of the indications of an evolutionary origin of Symbiodinium symbiosis. However, observations of species-specific coral bleaching patterns suggest that highly integrated coral colonies may be more susceptible to thermal stress, and support the hypothesis that communication pathways between highly integrated polyps facilitate the dissemination of toxic byproducts created during the bleaching response. Here we reassess this hypothesis by parameterizing an integration index using 7 skeletal features that have been historically employed to infer physiological integration. We examine the relationship between this index and bleaching response across a phylogeny of 88 diverse coral species. Correcting for phylogenetic relationships among species in the analyses reveals significant patterns among species characters that could otherwise be obscured in simple crossspecies comparisons using standard statistics, whose assump tions of independence are violated by the shared evolutionary history among species. Similar to the observed benefits of in creased coloniality for other types of stressors, the results indicate a significantly reduced bleaching response among coral species with highly integrated colonies.KEY WORDS: Colony integration · Colony form · Coral bleaching · Phylogenetically corrected analysis Stylized representation of the phylogeny and morphologies that allowed detection of decreased thermal bleaching with greater polyp integration (coloniality).

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The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

Cited by 220 publications

References 432 publications

Utility of Photochemical Traits as Diagnostics of Thermal Tolerance amongst Great Barrier Reef Corals

Utility of Photochemical Traits as Diagnostics of Thermal Tolerance amongst Great Barrier Reef Corals

Marine Animal Microbiomes: Toward Understanding Host–Microbiome Interactions in a Changing Ocean

Physiological integration of coral colonies is correlated with bleaching resistance

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