Coral bleaching: Thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts

By R. Rowan. Nature, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Geographic distribution of zooxanthella types in three coral species on the Great Barrier Reef sampled after the 2002 bleaching event (2005, background): “However, there was a very high postbleaching abundance of the heat tolerant symbiont type D (Baker et al. 2004; Fabricius et al. 2004; Rowan 2004) in one coral population at the most heat-stressed site.”
Breakdown of the coral-algae symbiosis: towards formalising a linkage between warm-water bleaching thresholds and the growth rate of the intracellular zooxanthellae (2012, neutral): “growth rate, photosynthetic yield) to external conditions, particularly light and temperature regimes (Kinzie et al., 2001; Rowan, 2004).”
Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion (2006, background): “Change in Symbiodinium types following bleaching (in this case to type D1a) may impart the temporary benefit of thermal tolerance (Rowan 2004) but may impair growth rates and reproduction of hosts until pre-bleaching symbiont types are re-acquired (Szmant and Gassman 1990; Little et al. 2004).”
Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat (2011, background): “For members of clade D, these observations of distinct thermal tolerance are also supported by physiological experiments, showing that corals bearing these symbionts resist temperature-induced bleaching more than corals hosting common members of clade C (Rowan 2004; Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006).”
Do fluctuating temperature environments elevate coral thermal tolerance? (2011, background): “A post-collection acclimation period to reduce transplant stress is a standard precaution with field-collected corals (see Rowan 2004; Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006).”
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change (2006, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. negative impacts of future climate change (Baker 2001, Baker et al. 2004, Davis & Shaw 2001, Rowan 2004).”
Acquisition and assimilation of carbon in non-bleached and bleached corals (2010, background): “The causes of this differential response appear to be due to one or more of the following factors: endosymbiotic algal type (Baker 2001, Rowan 2004), endosymbiotic algal density (Stimson et al. 2002), coral morphology (Loya et al. 2001), heterotrophic feeding capacity (Grottoli et al. 2006), and…”
Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia (2011, background): “…2008, Hennige et al. 2009), response to thermal stress, and influence on the relative bleaching susceptibility/ resistance of their scleractinian hosts (Rowan et al. 1997, Glynn et al. 2001, Rowan 2004, Goulet et al. 2005, Berkelmans & van Oppen 2006, Jones et al. 2008, LaJeunesse et al. 2010b).”
Mechanisms of Thermal Tolerance in Reef-Building Corals across a Fine-Grained Environmental Mosaic: Lessons from Ofu, American Samoa (2018, background): “The clade D haplotype recovered was shown to be heat resistant elsewhere (Rowan, 2004; Berkelmans and van Oppen, 2006; Jones et al., 2008).”
One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera (2007, background): “1 and G2, both belonging to Symbiodinium lineages that show high stress tolerance and/or opportunistic abilities (Baker et al. 2004; Rowan 2004; van Oppen et al. 2005a, b).”
Mixing it up: Multiple symbiont acquisition strategies as an adaptive mechanism in the coral Stylophora pistillata (2012, background): “Specific Symbiodinium types exhibit distinct physiologies and respond differently to variation in light and temperature (Warner et al. 1999; Iglesias-Prieto et al. 2004; Rowan 2004; Tchernov et al. 2004; Loram et al. 2007; Reynolds et al. 2008; Sampayo et al. 2008).”
Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts (2012, background): “Physiological advantages achieved by partnering with functionally diverse symbiont”
Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral‐algal symbioses (2008, background): “Rowan (2004) observed clear differences in habitat distributions between Pocillopora holobionts D and C living in Guam.”