Including environmental and climatic considerations for sustainable coral reef restoration

PLoS Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 22(3), P. e3002542 - e3002542

Published: March 19, 2024

Coral reefs provide ecosystem benefits to millions of people but are threatened by rapid environmental change and ever-increasing human pressures. Restoration is becoming a priority strategy for coral reef conservation, yet implementation remains challenging it increasingly apparent that indirect conservation restoration approaches will not ensure the long-term sustainability reefs. The important role conditions in practice currently undervalued, carrying substantial implications success. Giving paramount importance conditions, particularly during pre-restoration planning phase, has potential bring about considerable improvements innovation. This Essay argues risk may be reduced adopting an environmentally aware perspective gives historical, contemporary, future context decisions. Such approach open up new opportunities with improved have capacity dynamically respond trajectories.

Language: Английский

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Analysis of metagenomic data

Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: Jan. 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines

Environmental Microbiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 27(2)

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Corals associate with a diverse community of prokaryotic symbionts that provide nutrition, antioxidants and other protective compounds to their host. However, the influence microbes on coral thermotolerance remains understudied. Here, we examined microbial communities associated colonies Acropora cf. tenuis exhibit high or low upon exposure 33°C (heated) relative 29°C (control). Using 16S rRNA sequencing, show structure all A. was similar each at control temperature. Thermotolerant colonies, however, had relatively greater abundance Endozoicomonas, Arcobacter, Bifidobacterium Lactobacillus. At elevated temperature, only thermosensitive showed distinct shift in microbiome, an increase Flavobacteriales, Rhodobacteraceae Vibrio, accompanying marked bleaching response. Functional prediction indicated thermotolerant corals were enriched for genes related metabolism, while microbiomes cell motility antibiotic compound synthesis. These differences may contribute variable performance under thermal stress. Identification taxa correlated provides insights into beneficial bacterial groups could be used microbiome engineering support reef health changing climate.

Language: Английский

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Progress and future directions for seaweed holobiont research

New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 244(2), P. 364 - 376

Published: Aug. 13, 2024

In the marine environment, seaweeds (i.e. macroalgae) provide a wide range of ecological services and economic benefits. Like land plants, do not these in isolation, rather they rely on their associated microbial communities, which together with host form seaweed holobiont. However, there is poor understanding mechanisms shaping complex seaweed-microbe interactions, evolutionary processes underlying interactions. Here, we identify current research challenges opportunities field holobiont biology. We argue that identifying key partners, knowing how are recruited, specific function relevance across all life history stages among knowledge gaps particularly important to address, especially context environmental threatening seaweeds. further discuss future approaches study holobionts, can apply concept natural or engineered ecosystems.

Language: Английский

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Help Me, Symbionts, You're My Only Hope: Approaches to Accelerate our Understanding of Coral Holobiont Interactions

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 62(6), P. 1756 - 1769

Published: Sept. 13, 2022

Tropical corals construct the three-dimensional framework for one of most diverse ecosystems on planet, providing habitat to a plethora species across taxa. However, these ecosystem engineers are facing unprecedented challenges, such as increasing disease prevalence and marine heatwaves associated with anthropogenic global change. As result, major declines in coral cover health being observed world's oceans, often due breakdown coral-associated symbioses. Here, we review interactions between symbiotic partners holobiont-the cnidarian host, algae family Symbiodiniaceae, microbiome-that influence trait variation, including molecular mechanisms that underlie symbiosis resulting physiological benefits different microbial partnerships. In doing so, highlight current formation maintenance cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis, role immunity pathways play this relationship. We emphasize understanding complex is challenging when you consider vast genetic variation host algal symbiont, well their highly microbiome, which also an important player holobiont health. Given among partners, propose several research directions approaches focused model systems emerging technologies will broaden our how partner may facilitate prediction phenotype, especially under rapid environmental

Language: Английский

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Bacteria associated with the in hospite Symbiodiniaceae’s phycosphere

iScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(4), P. 109531 - 109531

Published: March 19, 2024

Language: Английский

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Bacterial Diversity Associated with Millepora alcicornis, Phyllogorgia dilatata and Mussismilia harttii Collected from Two Distinct Corals Reefs on the Brazilian Coast

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 358 - 358

Published: Feb. 15, 2025

Corals can be considered holobiont organisms, since they have an important symbiotic relationship with microbial communities such as zooxanthellae, bacteria, Archaea, fungi and viruses. It is to understand how those influence the health of corals environmental conditions could affect them. The present study aimed describe bacterial associated three Brazilian coral species, Millepora alcicornis, Mussismilia harttii Phyllogorgia dilatata, by a culture-independent method, using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. were collected from two distinct reefs: Recife de Fora, in Bahia (BA) Búzios, Rio Janeiro (RJ). phylum Proteobacteria showed highest relative abundance most sites. compositions these sample sites very each other, not presenting similarities species or related sampling site. In M. alcicornes/RJ, abundant class was Gammaproteobacteria, order Piscirickettsiales, while same BA unassigned Vibrionaceae second family. harttii/BA presented composition 16 phyla (26% Proteobacteria, 16% Chloroflexi, 12% Acidobacteriota).

Language: Английский

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Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience

One Earth, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8(3), P. 101193 - 101193

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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SMALL-SCALE SPATIAL PATTERN OF THE TROPHIC STRUCTURE OF POLYCHAETES FROM CORAL REEFS: IMPLICATIONS OF FUTURE SEA LEVEL RISE

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 109162 - 109162

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The Coral Holobiont

Coral reefs of the world, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 95 - 104

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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