Coral bleaching and disease combine to cause extensive mortality on reefs in US Virgin Islands

By Jeff Miller, R. Waara, Erinn M. Muller, C. Rogers. Coral reefs, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. Valerie J. Paul
2. S. Arnold
3. Robert Steneck
4. T. McClanahan
5. E. Weil
6. B. Willis
7. R. Ritson-Williams
8. C. Page

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• Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites (2009, background): “White plague and Caribbean yellow band diseases outbreaks occurred during and right after the 2005 mass-bleaching event in the Caribbean producing extensive coral mortality in many reef localities (Miller et al., 2006; Muller et al., 2008; E. Weil, personal observation).”
• Bleaching increases likelihood of disease on Acropora palmata (Lamarck) in Hawksnest Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands (2008, background): “Bleaching followed by disease was also observed on massive reef-building coral colonies on deeper reefs of St John and St Croix (Miller et al. 2006).”
• Temporal variability and impact of coral diseases and bleaching in La Parguera, Puerto Rico from 2003–2007 (2009, background): “Intensive bleaching followed by an outbreak of WPD was also reported for the Virgin Islands (Miller at al.”
• New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs (2008, background): “Although it dominates Caribbean reefs today (Kramer, 2003) and is relatively hardy, it too has shown elevated levels of disease in recent years (Pantos et al., 2003) and has increased susceptibility to disease after bleaching (Miller et al., 2006).”
• 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): “The number and impacts of coral diseases have been increasing worldwide in recent years (Harvell et al. 1999; McClanahan et al. 2004; Willis et al. 2004; Miller et al. 2006) and are likely to continue to increase given that there are few options for mitigating their impacts (Bruckner”