White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs

By R. Aronson, W. Precht. Hydrobiologia, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis, at one time the predominant corals in this habitat, have undergone a long period of decline dating to the 1960s (Aronson & Precht 2001).”
THE EXPANDING SCALE OF SPECIES TURNOVER EVENTS ON CORAL REEFS IN BELIZE (2002, background): “…as replacements (Sammarco 1985, Smith 1992, Connell 1997) lead us to concur with predictions that brooders, particularly in the families Poritidae and Agariciidae, will become increasingly dominant components of coral assemblages on Caribbean reefs (Kojis and Quinn 1994; Aronson and Precht 2001b).”
The status of coral reef ecology research in the Red Sea (2013, background): “Globally, coral reef-associated microbial research is focusing on relationships between microbes and coral disease and more recently coral bleaching (e.g. Aronson and Precht 2001; Rosenberg et al. 2007).”
The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities (2004, background): “The signature of this species loss, which has not occurred in the previous 3800 years, is readily detectable in recent cores (Aronson and Precht 2001).”
Impacts of a Regional, Multi-Year, Multi-Species Coral Disease Outbreak in Southeast Florida (2018, background): “In addition to the previous observations of white plague along the FRT, black band disease (Carlton and Richardson, 1995; Kuta and Richardson, 1996) and Acroporid only affecting diseases, whiteband (Gladfelter, 1982; Aronson and Precht, 2001), white-pox (Sutherland and Ritchie, 2004), and rapid tiss”
Revisiting the catastrophic die-off of the urchin Diadema antillarum on Caribbean coral reefs: Fresh insights on resilience from a simulation model (2006, background): “, 2001), white band disease (Aronson and Precht, 2001) and coral bleaching (Lang et al.”
ARE DISEASES INCREASING IN THE OCEAN (2004, background): “For example, species within the branching acroporidae reproduce almost exclusively by fragmentation rather than by sexual reproduction (Aronson & Precht 2001, Knowlton 1992).”
Bleaching increases likelihood of disease on Acropora palmata (Lamarck) in Hawksnest Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands (2008, background): “In the late 1970s, white band disease, a widespread and virulent epizootic, caused precipitous declines in A. palmata and A. cervicornis throughout the Caribbean and contributed to structural changes in the shallow reef environment (Aronson and Precht 2001).”
Biological indicators in the Caribbean coastal zone and their role in integrated coastal management (2003, background): “White band disease, in particular, is thought to be new and has played an important role in Caribbean reef degradation [51].”
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].”
Role of Elevated Organic Carbon Levels and Microbial Activity in Coral Mortality (2006, background): “Coral disease is also a major contributor to declining coral abundance (Green & Bruckner 2000, Aronson & Precht 2001, Sutherland 2004).”
Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs (2010, background): “For example, the outbreak of white-band disease on Caribbean Acropora in the 1980s and 1990s was limited to the shallows due to the restriction of Acropora to shallow water (Aronson and Precht 2001).”