Locally Adapted Coral Species Withstand a 2-Week Hypoxic Event

Oceans, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6(1), P. 5 - 5

Published: Jan. 8, 2025

One approach to improve long-term coral restoration success utilizes naturally stress-tolerant corals from the wild. While focus has primarily been on thermal stress, low oxygen is a growing threat reefs and efforts should also consider hypoxia tolerance. Here we determine if Siderastrea siderea Agaricia tenuifolia populations reef with historical record of exhibit evidence local adaptation hypoxic events, compared reference reef. We employed laboratory-based reciprocal transplant experiment mimicking severe 14-night event monitored bleaching responses, photo-physiology, metabolic rates, survival all four during, for two weeks following event. In both species, found either fully persisted or recovered within 3 days contrast, conspecific naïve well-oxygenated experienced death. This showcases vulnerability exposed but suggests that locally adapted survive episodic hypoxia. Other past may be home signatures useful efforts.

Language: Английский

Complexity of the Coral Microbiome Assembly

Coral reefs of the world, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 105 - 110

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Microbiome flexibility enhances the resilience of the potentially invasive coral Tubastraea aurea to abrupt environmental changes: Insights from a shallow water hydrothermal vent transplantation study

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 954, P. 176792 - 176792

Published: Oct. 9, 2024

Language: Английский