Nutrient enrichment can increase the severity of coral diseases

By J. Bruno, L. Petes, C. D. Harvell, Annaliese Hettinger. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Factors Affecting Susceptibility of the Coral Montastraea faveolata to Black-Band Disease. (2006, background): “Many studies have suggested that different types of environmental stress may contribute to increases in the incidence of coral disease (Antonius 1989, Santavy & Peters 1997, Bruckner et al. 1997, Harvell et al. 2001, Bruno et al. 2003).”
Temperature affects coral disease resistance and pathogen growth (2007, background): “One hypothesis to explain patchiness of aspergillosis is that environmental stressors such as temperature and nutrient enrichment (Bruno et al. 2003) facilitate infections at some sites.”
Predicting global habitat suitability for stony corals on seamounts (2009, background): “Increased nutrients and temperature can both also increase the occurrence and severity of coral diseases in shallow-water stony corals (Bruno et al. , 2003, 2007; Boyett et al. , 2007).”
Effect of nutrient enrichment and elevated CO2 partial pressure on growth rate of Atlantic scleractinian coral Acropora cervicornis (2005, background): “…(and A. palmata) have been blamed mainly on coral diseases, local eutrophication may have played a role by increasing coral stress, resulting in increased disease susceptibility and severity (Aronson & Precht 1997, Aronson et al. 1998, Porter et al. 2001, Patterson et al. 2002, Bruno et al. 2003).”
Effects of phosphate on growth and skeletal density in the scleractinian coral Acropora muricata: A controlled experimental approach (2012, background): “It has been demonstrated here and elsewhere that corals can grow faster under high phosphate conditions (Bucher and Harrison, 2002; Koop et al., 2001; Steven and Broadbent, 1997). Higher coral growth rates were once considered to be a positive indicator of coral health (Neudecker, 1983; Rosen, 1981)”
Effects of terrestrial runoff on the ecology of corals and coral reefs: review and synthesis. (2005, background): “Slow-release fertiliser experiments have demonstrated that infection rates and the spread of certain coral and octocoral diseases are accelerated by experimentally enhancing concentrations of inorganic nutrients (Bruno et al., 2003).”
Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks (2007, background): “For example, the severity of at least three coral diseases is linked with nutrient concentrations [25,32,75], whereas the frequency of others, like white syndrome, is greatest on remote reefs in highly oligotrophic waters [30].”
Impacts of a Regional, Multi-Year, Multi-Species Coral Disease Outbreak in Southeast Florida (2018, background): “In addition to thermal stress, other anthropogenically influenced stressors linked to increased coral disease prevalence and mortality include reduced water quality (Bruno et al., 2003) and clarity (van Woesik and McCaffrey, 2017),”
Nutrient enrichment enhances black band disease progression in corals (2006, background): “Bruno et al. (2003) hypothesized that increased nutrient concentrations potentially enhance pathogen fitness and virulence.”
Assessment of coral reefs using herbivory/nutrient assays and indicator groups of benthic primary producers: a critical synthesis, proposed protocols, and critique of management strategies (2007, background): “, 2001) as well as with coral diseases (Harvell et al., 1999, 2002; Bruno et al., 2003), and algal blooms can serve as the vectors (Nugues et al.”
The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities (2004, background): “Aspergillotic lesions grow at a greater rate when nitrate levels are elevated (Bruno et al. 2003).”
Temporal variability and impact of coral diseases and bleaching in La Parguera, Puerto Rico from 2003–2007 (2009, background): “…& Richardson 2002), and correlative studies suggest that the incidence and severity of certain diseases increase under high nutrient concentrations (Bruno et al. 2003; Kaczmarsky et al. 2005) or anthropogenic influences such as coastal development, sewage discharges etc. (Green & Bruckner 2000;…”
Phage therapy of coral disease (2007, background): “It is now clear that environmental factors, especially increased seawater temperature and pollution, contribute to disease formation (Rosenberg and Ben-Haim 2002; Bruno et al. 2003; Kerri et al. 2004; Kuntz et al. 2005; Kline et al. 2006), and every eVort should be made to avoid these deleterious fa”