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Coral Reefs: 2008 Publications

Ainsworth, T., Fine, M., Roff, G., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O.  Bacteria are not the primary cause of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica.  ISME Journal 2(1): 67-73, 2008.

Albright, R., Mason, B., and Langdon, C.  Effect of aragonite saturation state on settlement and post-settlement growth of Porites astreoides larvae.  Coral Reefs 27(3): 485-490, 2008.

Anthony, K.R.N., Kline, D.I., Diaz-Pulido, G., Dove, S., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O.  Ocean acidification causes bleaching and productivity loss in coral reef builders.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 105(45): 17442-17446, 2008.

Baums, I.B.  A restoration genetics guide for coral reef conservation.  Molecular Ecology 17(12): 2796-2811, 2008.

Bourne, D., Iida, Y., Uthicke, S., and Smith-Keune, C.  Changes in coral-associated microbial communities during a bleaching event.  ISME Journal 2(4): 350-363, 2008.

Burkepile, D.E. and Hay, M.E.  Herbivore species richness and feeding complementarity affect community structure and function on a coral reef.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 105(42): 16201-16206, 2008.

Carpenter, K.E. et al.  One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts.  Science 321(5888): 560-563, 2008.

Chandrasekaran, S., Arun Nagendran, N., Pandiaraja, D., Krishnankutty, N., and Kamalakannan, B.  Bioinvasion of Kappaphycus alvarezii on corals in the Gulf of Mannar, India.  Current Science 94(9): 1167-1172, 2008.

Cooper, T.F., De'Ath, G., Fabricius, K.E., and Lough, J.M.  Declining coral calcification in massive Porites in two nearshore regions of the northern Great Barrier Reef.  Global Change Biology 14(3): 529-538, 2008.

Danovaro, R., Bongiorni, L., Corinaldesi, C., Giovannelli, D., Damiani, E., Astolfi, P., Greci, L., and Pusceddu, A.  Sunscreens cause coral bleaching by promoting viral infections.  Environmental Health Perspectives 116(4): 441-447, 2008.

Day, J.  The need and practice of monitoring, evaluating and adapting marine planning and management ? lessons from the Great Barrier Reef.  Marine Policy 32(5): 823-831, 2008.

Day, T., Nagel, L., van Oppen, M.J.H., and Caley, M.J.  Factors affecting the evolution of bleaching resistance in corals.  American Naturalist 171(2): E72-E88, 2008.

Dinsdale, E.A. et al.  Microbial ecology of four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands.  PLoS ONE 3(2): art. e1584, 2008.

Edmunds, P.J. and Gates, R.D.  Acclimatization in tropical reef corals.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 361: 307-310, 2008.

Fabricius, K.E., De'Ath, G., Puotinen, M.L., Done, T., Cooper, T.F., and Burgess, S.C.  Disturbance gradients on inshore and offshore coral reefs caused by a severe tropical cyclone.  Limnology and Oceanography 53(2): 690-704, 2008.

Francini, R. B., Moura, R. L., Thompson, F. L., Reis, R. M., Kaufman, L., Kikuchi, R. K. P., and Leao, Z. M.  Diseases leading to accelerated decline of reef corals in the largest South Atlantic reef complex (Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil).  Marine Pollution Bulletin 56(5): 1008-1014, 2008.

Gardes, L. and Salvat, B.  Coral reefs in French overseas territories: A retrospective study of changes in health conditions of these diversified and vulnerable ecosystems recorded by monitoring networks.  Revue D'Ecologie - La Terre et La Vie 63(1-2): 23-32, 2008.

Goffredo, S., Caroselli, E., Mattioli, G., Pignotti, E., and Zaccanti, F.  Relationships between growth, population structure and sea surface temperature in the temperate solitary coral Balanophyllia europaea (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae).  Coral Reefs 27(3): 623-632, 2008.

Graham, N.A.J. et al.  Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems.  PLoS ONE 3(8): art. e3039, 2008.

Green, D.H., Edmunds, P.J., and Carpenter, R.C.  Increasing relative abundance of Porites astreoides on Caribbean reefs mediated by an overall decline in coral cover.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 359: 1-10, 2008.

Greenstein, B.J. and Pandolfi, J.M.  Escaping the heat:  range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia.  Global Change Biology 14(3): 513-528, 2008.

Guzman, H.M., Cipriani, R., and Jackson, J.J.B.  Historical decline in coral reef growth after the Panama Canal.  Ambio 37(5): 342-346, 2008.

Jokiel, P.L., Rodgers, K.S., Kuffner, I.B., Andersson, A.J., Cox, E.F., and Mackenzie, F.T.  Ocean acidification and calcifying reef organisms:  a mesocosm investigation.  Coral Reefs 27(3): 473-483, 2008.

Jones, R.J.  Coral bleaching, bleaching-induced mortality, and the adaptive significance of the bleaching response.  Marine Biology 154(1): 65-80, 2008.

Knowlton, N.  Coral reefs.  Current Biology 18(1): R18-R21, 2008.

Knowlton, N. and Jackson, J.B.C.  Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs.  PLoS Biology 6(2): art. e54, 2008.

Kruzic, P., Zuljevic, A., and Nikolic, V.  The highly invasive alga Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea poses a new threat to the banks of the coral Cladocora caespitosa in the Adriatic Sea.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 441, 2008.

Linares, C., Coma, R., and Zabala, M.  Effects of a mass mortality event on gorgonian reproduction.  Coral Reefs 27(1): 27-34, 2008.

Lopez-Legentil, S., Song, B., McMurray, S.E., and Pawlik, J.R.  Bleaching and stress in coral reef ecosystems:  hsp70 expression by the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta.  Molecular Ecology 17(7): 1840-1849, 2008.

Lough, J.M.  A changing climate for coral reefs.  Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10(1): 21-29, 2008.

Maliao, R.J., Turingan, R.G., and Lin, J.  Phase-shift in coral reef communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), USA.  Marine Biology 154(5): 841-853, 2008.

Manzello, D.P., Kleypas, J.A., Budd, D.A., Eakin, C.M., Glynn, P.W., and Langdon, C.  Poorly cemented coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific: Possible insights into reef development in a high-CO2 world.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 105(30): 10450-10455, 2008.

Marhaver, K.L., Edwards, R.A., and Rohwer, F.  Viral communities associated with healthy and bleaching corals.  Environmental Microbiology 10(9): 2277-2286, 2008.

Marubini, F., Ferrier-Pages, C., Furla, P., and Allemand, D.  Coral calcification responds to seawater acidification:  a working hypothesis towards a physiological mechanism.  Coral Reefs 27(3): 491-499, 2008.

Maynard, J.A., Anthony, K.R.N., Marshall, P.A., and Masiri, I.  Major bleaching events can lead to increased thermal tolerance in corals.  Marine Biology 155(2): 173-182, 2008.

Middlebrook, R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and Leggat, W.  The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building coral to thermal stress.  Journal of Experimental Biology 211(7): 1050-1056, 2008.

Mora, C.  A clear human footprint in the coral reefs of the Caribbean.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London [B] 275(1636): 767-773, 2008.

Muller, E.M., Rogers, C.S., Spitzack, A.S., and VanWoesik, R.  Bleaching increases likelihood of disease on Acropora palmata  (Lamarck) in Hawksnest Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands.  Coral Reefs 27(1): 191-195, 2008.

Nugues, M.M. and Bak, R.P.M.  Long-term dynamics of the brown macroalga Lobophora variegata on deep reefs in Curacao.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 389-393, 2008.

Olsson, P., Folke, C., and Hughes, T.P.  Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 105(28): 9489-9494, 2008.

Oxenford, H.A., Roach, R., Brathwaite, A., Nurse, L., Goodridge, R., Hinds, F., Baldwin, K., and Finney, C.  Quantitative observations of a major coral bleaching event in Barbados, Southeastern Caribbean.  Climatic Change 87(3-4): 435-449, 2008.

Page, C.A. and Willis, B.L.  Epidemiology of skeletal eroding band on the Great Barrier Reef and the role of injury in the initiation of this widespread coral disease.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 257-272, 2008.

Pante, E., King, A., and Dustan, P.  Short-term decline of a Bahamian patch reef coral community:  Rainbow Gardens Reef 1991-2004.  Hydrobiologia 596: 121-132, 2008.

Patten, N.L., Harrison, P.L., and Mitchell, J.G.  Prevalence of virus-like particles within a staghorn scleractinian coral (Acropora muricata) from the Great Barrier Reef.  Coral Reefs 27(3): 569-580, 2008.

Pratchett, M.S., Munday, M.S., Wilson, S.K., Graham, N.A.J., Cinner, J.E., Bellwood, D.R., Jones, G.P., Polunin, N.V.C., and McClanahan, T.R.  Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes:  ecological and economic consequences.  Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 46: 251-296, 2008.

Rodriguez, S. and Croquer, A.  Dynamics of Black Band Disease in a Diploria strigosa population subjected to annual upwelling on the northeastern coast of Venezuela.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 381-388, 2008.

Roff, G., Kvennefors, E.C.E., Ulstrup, K.E., Fine, M., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O.  Coral disease physiology:  the impact of Acroporid white syndrome on Symbiodinium.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 373-377, 2008.

Rypien, K.L., Andras, J.P., and Harvell, C.D.  Globally panmictic population structure in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus sydowii.  Molecular Ecology 17(18): 4068-4078, 2008.

Sampayo, E.M., Ridgway, T., Bongaerts, P., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O.  Bleaching susceptibility and mortality of corals are determined by fine-scale differences in symbiont type.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] 105(30): 10444-10449, 2008.

Sandin, S.A. et al.  Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the northern Line Islands.  PLoS ONE 3(2): art. e1548, 2008.

Sekar, R., Kaczmarsky, L.T., and Richardson, L.L.  Microbial community composition of black band disease on the coral host Siderastrea siderea from three regions of the wider Caribbean.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 362: 85-98, 2008.

Shafir, S., Gur, O., and Rinkevich, B.  A Drupella cornus outbreak in the northern Gulf of Eilat and changes in coral prey.  Coral Reefs 27(2): 379, 2008.

Sheppard, C.R.C., Harris, A., and Sheppard, A.L.S.  Archipelago-wide coral recovery patterns since 1998 in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 362: 109-117, 2008.

Smith, L.D., Gilmour, J.P., and Heyward, A.J.  Resilience of coral communities on an isolated system of reefs following catastrophic mass-bleaching.  Coral Reefs 27(1): 197-205, 2008.

Sussman, M., Willis, B.L., Victor, S., and Bourne, D.G.  Coral pathogens identified for White Syndrome (WS) epizootics in the Indo-Pacific.  PLoS ONE 3(6): art. e2393, 2008.

Toledo-Hernandez, C., Zuluaga-Montero, A., Bones-Gonzalez, A., Rodriguez, J.A., Sabat, A.M., and Bayman, P.  Fungi in healthy and diseased sea fans (Gorgonia ventalina): is Aspergillus sydowii always the pathogen?  Coral Reefs 27(3): 707-714, 2008.

Torrents, O., Tambutte, E., Caminiti, N., and Garrabou, J.  Upper thermal thresholds of shallow vs. deep populations of the precious Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum (L.):  Assessing the potential effects of warming in the NW Mediterranean.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 357(1): 7-19, 2008.

Unsworth, R.K.F., DeLeon, P.S., Garrard, S.L., Jompa, J., Smith, D.J., and Bell, J.J.  High connectivity of Indo-Pacific seagrass fish assemblages with mangrove and coral reef habitats.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 353: 213-224, 2008.

Verweij, M.C., Nagelkerken, I., Hans, I., Ruseler, S.M., and Mason, P.R.D.  Seagrass nurseries contribute to coral reef fish populations.  Limnology and Oceanography 53(4): 1540-1547, 2008.

Vollmer, S.V. and Kline, D.I.  Natural disease resistance in threatened staghorn corals.  PLoS ONE 3(11): art. e3718, 2008.

Williams, D.E., Miller, M.W., and Kramer, K.L.  Recruitment failure in Florida Keys Acropora palmata, a threatened Caribbean coral.  Coral Reefs 27(3): 697-705, 2008.

Williams, G.J., Davy, S.K., and Aeby, G.S.  Coral disease at Palmyra Atoll, a remote reef system in the Central Pacific.  Coral Reefs 27(1): 207, 2008.

Wilson, S.K., Burgess, S.C., Cheal, A.J., Emslie, M., Fisher, R., Miller, I., Polunin, N.V.C., and Sweatman, H.P.A.  Habitat utilization by coral reef fish: implications for specialists vs. generalists in a changing environment.  Journal of Animal Ecology 77(2): 220-228, 2008.