Elevated temperature and light enhance progression and spread of black band disease on staghorn corals of the Great Barrier Reef

By H. Boyett, D. Bourne, B. Willis. 2007

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Epidemiology of skeletal eroding band on the Great Barrier Reef and the role of injury in the initiation of this widespread coral disease (2008, background): “For example, mean rates of SEB progression are less than half those reported for BBD at Lizard Island (4.1–9.9 mm/day, Boyett et al. 2007) and are likely to be slower than those reported for white syndrome in the southern GBR (up to 57.8 mm2/day, RoV et al. 2006), although faster than those…”
Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites (2009, background): “This is expected because bleaching compromises the health of corals and presumably make them more susceptible to microbial invasion (Ritchie, 2006), and because many microbes respond positively to warm water temperatures (Kushmaro et al., 1998; Boyett et al., 2007; Bruno et al., 2007; Ward et al., 2”
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).”