Coral reefs: Corals' adaptive response to climate change

By A. Baker, C. Starger, T. McClanahan, Peter W. Glynn. Nature, 2004

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

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Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia (2011, background): “…this region does not appear to readily host symbionts in clade D, as has been observed in other regions where conditions are highly turbid, extremely warm, and/or undergo wide seasonal fluctuations in temperature (e.g. Glynn et al. 2001, Baker et al. 2004, Correa 2009, LaJeunesse et al. 2010a,b).”
Phenotypic plasticity for skeletal growth, density and calcification of Porites lobata in response to habitat type (2007, neutral): “(Baker et al. 2004) variability of zooxanthella type, and dependence of coral skeletal growth rates on zooxanthella type (Little et al.”
Patterns of association between Symbiodinium and members of the Montastraea annularis species complex on spatial scales ranging from within colonies to between geographic regions (2006, background): “At several sites, Symbiodinium D has been associated with both high and low temperature resistance (Rowan et al. 1997; Toller et al. 2001a; Chen 2003; Baker et al. 2004) and high sedimentation rates associated with deep reefs (Toller et al. 2001b; Chen et al. 2005).”
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.”
Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far (2019, background): “…corals, and are mostly the more stress-tolerant clade A [Symbiodinium Hansen & Daugbjerg (LaJeunesse et al. 2018)] and/or clade D [now Durusdinium LaJeunesse gen. nov. (LaJeunesse et al. 2018)] when acquired by juvenile corals (Baker et al. 2004; Abrego et al. 2009; Yamashita et al. 2013, 2014).”
Temperature affects coral disease resistance and pathogen growth (2007, background): “Symbiont shuffling, or acquisition of different, more stresstolerant clades, has been suggested as a process of host acclimation to temperature stress (Baker et al. 2004).”
The role of zooxanthellae in the thermal tolerance of corals: a ‘nugget of hope’ for coral reefs in an era of climate change (2006, background): “…to thermal stress q 2006 The Royal Society than the same species with clade C symbionts (Glynn et al. 2001; Rowan 2004; Tchernov et al. 2004) and that some coral reefs which have been subject to repeated bleaching episodes harbour a greater proportion of D-type symbionts (Baker et al. 2004).”
Rapid responses of soil microorganisms improve plant fitness in novel environments (2012, background): “For example, the catastrophic effects of global warming on coral reef communities are greatly diminished when corals are colonized by particular clades of thermal-tolerant zooxanthellae symbionts (22).”
A modeling tool to evaluate regional coral reef responses to changes in climate and ocean chemistry (2008, methodology): “However, if such community-level adaptation occurs, it is likely to be punctuated, and in response to bleaching and partial mortality, rather than as the smooth function applied by the model (Glynn et al. 2001; Baker et al. 2004) We examined the effect of varying the two user-set probabilities (Blea”
Understanding diversity in coral-algal symbiosis: a cluster-based approach to interpreting fine-scale genetic variation in the genus Symbiodinium (2009, background): “Functional differences among algal symbionts are likely to influence the ability of their hosts to perform these functions (Glynn et al. 2001; Baker et al. 2004; Little et al. 2004; Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006; Jones et al. 2008).”
Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat (2011, background): “Observational studies of natural coral-bleaching events (Baker et al. 2004; Jones et al. 2008; LaJeunesse et al. 2010b) and physiological experiments (Rowan 2004; Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006) have shown that hosting genetically distinct types of algal endosymbionts, Symbiodinium spp., may alter…”