The role of zooxanthellae in the thermal tolerance of corals: a ‘nugget of hope’ for coral reefs in an era of climate change

By R. Berkelmans, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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In Ecology

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2. Michael Lesser
3. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
4. B. Willis
5. Ruth D. Gates
6. Mark E. Warner
7. W. Fitt
8. Stephen R. Palumbi

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. A. Baker
2. Stephen R. Palumbi
3. Michael Lesser
4. Thomas A. Oliver
5. V. Weis
6. Mark E. Warner
7. A. Correa
8. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg

In Oceanography

1. A. Baker
2. Michael Lesser
3. B. Willis
4. Ruth D. Gates
5. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
6. Mark E. Warner
7. W. Fitt
8. Todd C. LaJeunesse

Citations in the corpus

• Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? (2016, background): “For example, mutations in endosymbiotic Buchnera determine the thermal tolerance of their aphid hosts (Dunbar et al. 2007), and thermally - tolerant strains of endosymbiotic Symbiodinium increase the thermal tolerance of their host corals by more than 1 ° C (Berkelmans & van Oppen 2006).”
• Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching (2009, background): “Several studies have tested the physiological tolerances of Symbiodinium and found that there are distinct differences in ability to survive warmer than normal conditions (Fitt and Warner, 1995; Warner et al., 1996; Kinzie et al., 2001; Bhagooli and Hidaka, 2003; Berkelmans and van Oppen, 2006 ).”
• Symbiodinium Functional Diversity in the Coral Siderastrea siderea Is Influenced by Thermal Stress and Reef Environment, but Not Ocean Acidification (2018, background): “Correspondingly, Pacific Acropora millepora corals hosting predominantly clade D Symbiodinium have been shown to exhibit greater thermal tolerance when compared to those corals hosting Symbiodinium C2 (Berkelmans and Van Oppen, 2006; Jones et al., 2008).”
• Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs (2008, background): “Even stress-resistant zooxanthellae have upper temperature limits [49] and, although corals may migrate to higher latitudes, they may disappear throughout most of their original range.”
• Real-time PCR reveals a high incidence of Symbiodinium clade D at low levels in four scleractinian corals across the Great Barrier Reef: implications for symbiont shuffling (2007, background): “Clade D is also found on reefs that chronically experience unusually high temperatures (Fabricius et al. 2004) or that have recently been impacted by bleaching events ( Baker et al. 2004 ), suggesting that temperature stress can favor clade D. It is proposed here that the clade D backgrounds detecte”
• Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat (2011, background): “During natural bleaching events in the Pacific, corals hosting specific members of Symbiodinium clade D and, to a lesser extent, subtypes of clade C (e.g., C1 sensu van Oppen et al. 2001) have suffered significantly less bleaching and mortality than those hosting other members of clade C (e.g., C2 s”