Coral Disease on the Great Barrier Reef

By B. Willis, C. Page, E. Dinsdale. 2004

420 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. B. Willis
2. T. McClanahan
3. E. Weil
4. Valerie J. Paul
5. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
6. C. Page
7. Joseph M. Maina
8. K. Hutson

In Global and Planetary Change

1. T. McClanahan
2. B. Willis
3. E. Weil
4. C. Page
5. Valerie J. Paul
6. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
7. Srisakul Piromvaragorn
8. D. Bourne

Citations in the corpus

• Epidemiology of skeletal eroding band on the Great Barrier Reef and the role of injury in the initiation of this widespread coral disease (2008, methodology): “…2006; Page and Willis 2006) highlights the importance of understanding the etiology and impacts of disease, particularly given recent increases in the number of diseases (Raymundo et al. 2003; Willis et al. 2004) and disease cases in the region (Antonius and Lipscomb 2001; Willis et al. 2004).”
• Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands (2008, neutral): “other cyanobacteria (descriptions found in [77]).”
• Coral propagation: a review of techniques for ornamental trade and reef restoration (2017, background): “Corals are susceptible to numerous infectious disease agents including bacterial and fungal pathogens as well as parasites (Willis et al. 2004; Harvell et al. 2007; Bourne et al. 2008, 2015).”
• Coral disease prevalence and coral health in the Wakatobi Marine Park, south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia (2007, methodology): “Edmunds (1991) reported a strong seasonality of the black-band disease in the US Virgin Islands, with highest disease frequency at water temperatures of 28°C. Willis et al. (2004) observed an increase in disease prevalence on the GBR in the austral summer.”
• Scuba diving damage and intensity of tourist activities increases coral disease prevalence (2014, background): “…by crown-of-thorns starfish and corallivorous marine snails); physically damaged (recently exposed skeleton from breakage or severe abrasions); or healthy (i.e., no visible signs of disease lesions, other compromised health indicators or physical damage) (Willis et al., 2004; Lamb and Willis, 2011).”
• Elevated temperature and light enhance progression and spread of black band disease on staghorn corals of the Great Barrier Reef (2007, background): “At two sites on the Great Barrier Reef, the prevalence of Wve diseases including BBD increased up to 20-fold in summer ( Willis et al. 2004 ).”
• Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites (2009, background): “…disease prevalence with increasing seawater temperatures and disease epizootic events coinciding with or following major bleaching events are one line of evidence for this possible synergy (McClanahan et al., 2004; Willis et al., 2004; Miller et al., 2006; Bruno et al., 2007; Muller et al., 2008).”
• Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment (2020, background): “Acroporids and pocilloporids generally show elevated susceptibility to disease (Willis et al., 2004), particularly diseases like white syndromes that affect many coral species (Hobbs et al., 2015).”
• Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef (2007, background): “The white band or white area, after which these syndromes are named, is the result of rapidly sloughing coral tissue, characterised by distinct tissue loss patterns showing a clear lesion boundary between apparently healthy tissue and exposed skeleton (Antonius and Riegl 1997, 1998; Willis et al. 2”
• Pathogenesis of a Tissue Loss Disease Affecting Multiple Species of Corals Along the Florida Reef Tract (2019, background): “are often thought to be less susceptible to tissue loss diseases based on field patterns of disease prevalence (Willis et al., 2004; Aeby et al., 2011, 2015) including in Florida species (Porter et al.”
• Regional Decline of Coral Cover in the Indo-Pacific: Timing, Extent, and Subregional Comparisons (2007, background): “Infectious coral disease epidemics are not thought to be as prevalent or important in the Pacific as they are in the Caribbean [53], although this could be largely due to limited Indo-Pacific disease research [54].”