2022
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.975894
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Tissue loss disease outbreak significantly alters the Southeast Florida stony coral assemblage

Abstract: A stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) outbreak, first widely reported in 2014 in the Southeast Florida Ecosystem Conservation Area (Coral ECA), has continued to impact stony coral communities for more than seven years. Here, we utilize long-term (2012-2020) annual monitoring data from the Southeast Florida Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (SECREMP) to assess the impact of the SCTLD outbreak on the stony coral assemblage as well as spatiotemporal and ecological associated variation. SECREMP examines 2… Show more

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“…While some corals, such as branching Caribbean acroporids, are not impacted by this disease [3], SCTLD nevertheless has a wide host range, affecting over half of Caribbean coral species (~22 species) [2,3]. This has resulted in a decline in coral species richness, coral cover, and ecosystem function throughout Florida and the Caribbean [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While some corals, such as branching Caribbean acroporids, are not impacted by this disease [3], SCTLD nevertheless has a wide host range, affecting over half of Caribbean coral species (~22 species) [2,3]. This has resulted in a decline in coral species richness, coral cover, and ecosystem function throughout Florida and the Caribbean [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Spatially and temporally constrained outbreaks of diseases such as black band disease and white plague can cause significant declines in local coral cover (Richardson et al, 1998;Sato et al, 2009). Larger Caribbean-wide outbreaks of diseases like white band disease and stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) have resulted in catastrophic loss of susceptible species (Aronson and Precht, 2001;Neely et al, 2021), region-wide declines in coral cover, density, and diversity (Estrada-Saldıvar et al, 2021;Heres et al, 2021;Hayes et al, 2022), and changes to reef ecosystem function (Estrada-Saldıvar et al, 2020;Alvarez-Filip et al, 2022). Not surprisingly, the study of these diseases continues to increase in order to better understand and potentially manage or mitigate them.…”
Section: )mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other evidence suggests that SCTLD is caused by a virus that attacks some corals' endosymbiotic algae, but not others (10,11). SCTLD has reduced coral cover by 30 to 60% in affected regions (2,3), pushing a few coral species toward local extinction (3,12,13). Because diseases are most likely to have indirect community effects when they affect connected, unique, or widespread host species (14)(15)(16)(17)(18), we hypothesized that SCTLD-caused coral loss could trigger broad changes in diverse coral reef ecosystems (19).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%