Distributions of stress-resistant coral symbionts match environmental patterns at local but not regional scales

By Thomas A. Oliver, Stephen R. Palumbi. 2009

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Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “, 2007; Riegl and Luke, 1998; Wells, 2009), and coral bleaching is occurring with increasing frequency due to rising sea temperature (Oliver and Palumbi, 2009).”
Living in the now: physiological mechanisms to tolerate a rapidly changing environment. (2010, background): “In addition, observations from the field have documented that high temperatures are correlated with the distribution of Symbiodinium type in corals in the field (61, 62) and that the symbiont type changed, and possibly conferred thermotolerance, during natural bleaching events in the field (61, 63, ”
Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species (2014, background): “This cautions against making broad assumptions concerning the contribution of this group as a whole in the ecological or evolutionary response of coral–dinoflagellate symbioses to climate change (Baker et al. 2004; Oliver & Palumbi 2009; Stat & Gates 2011).”
Patterns of Symbiodinium distribution in three giant clam species across the biodiverse Bird’s Head region of Indonesia (2012, background): “…an important role in determining the relative abundance of clade D (Baker et al. 2004, Fabricius et al. 2004, McClanahan et al. 2007, La Jeunesse et al. 2010, Oliver & Palumbi 2011), al though over large scales these pattern may be obscured by other biogeographic factors (Oliver & Palumbi 2009).”
Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat (2011, background): “Putatively heat-tolerant clade D Symbiodinium are prevalent in coral communities living in warm-water habits around American Samoa (Oliver and Palumbi 2009), and it is possible that fewer species will host clade D in other areas where these symbionts are less common.”
Do fluctuating temperature environments elevate coral thermal tolerance? (2011, background): “Study site: lagoon pool temperature measurements All experiments were performed on the southern coast of Ofu Island, American Samoa in March 2006 and March 2007, using corals sampled from two back-reef pools (Fig.”
Mangrove lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef support coral populations persisting under extreme environmental conditions (2019, background): “…environments, such as carbon dioxide vents (e.g. Fabricius et al. 2011, Enochs et al. 2015), back reef tide pools on Ofu Island (Smith et al. 2007, Oliver & Palumbi 2009, 2011a) and mangrove lagoons (Camp et al. 2016a, 2017) have revealed that phenotypic plasticity, particularly in traits related…”