Seasonal patterns of tissue biomass and densities of symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef corals and relation to coral bleaching

By W. Fitt, F. Mcfarland, Mark E. Warner, G. Chilcoat, B. Wick, G. Dennis, S. Miller, T. Bailey, J. Acaba, B. Kakuk and 6 more. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Experimental biology of coral reef ecosystems (2004, background): “It is important to put bleaching in the context of the seasonal cycling of zooxanthellae densities in reef corals, which has recently been documented (Fagoonee et al., 1999; Fitt et al., 2000).”
Community dynamics and physiology of Symbiodinium spp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event (2014, methodology): “Herein, measurements of Symbiodinium cell densities prior to bleaching (October 2009) showed seasonal oscillations similar to those described by Fitt et al. (2000).”
Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium (2003, positive): “Instead, bleaching is an extreme version of a symbiont regulatory mechanism in which algal densities change in response to a changing environment (Fagoonee et al. 1999, Fitt et al. 2000, Kinzie 1999) over seasonal (and shorter) timescales.”
Mortality, growth and reproduction in scleractinian corals following bleaching on the Great barrier Reef (2002, background): “A more rigorous measure, such as the proportional loss of zooxanthellae (Jones 1997), or tissue biomass (e.g. Fitt et al. 2000) may be required to predict the effect of bleaching on colony growth.”
Interactive effects of ocean acidification and temperature on two scleractinian corals from Moorea, French Polynesia (2012, background): “…a content of 4.6 lg cm 2 for P. porites (Venn et al., 2006) and an average of 2.2 lg cm 2 for 11 records from Acropora spp. (Haramaty et al., 1997; Fitt et al., 2000; Harithsa et al., 2005); and calcification per protein biomass in Stylophora pistillata and Acropora spp. (Gattuso et al., 1998)…”
A corrosive concoction: The combined effects of ocean warming and acidification on the early growth of a stony coral are multiplicative (2011, background): “Seasonal fluctuations in temperature are also known to reduce the number of zooxanthellae in the coral tissue (Fitt et al., 2000).”
Skeletal isotope microprofiles of growth perturbations in Porites corals during the 1997–1998 mass bleaching event (2003, background): “Fitt et al. (2000) showed that algal density in coral cells decreased in summer, suggesting that unusual high-irradiance, high-temperature conditions during summer may disrupt algal photosynthesis, and thus inhibit calcification.”
The Adaptive Hypothesis of Bleaching (2004, background): “Figure 2 also illustrates that significant change in the dominance of symbiotic algae types in hermatypic corals can routinely occur in the absence of observable bleaching or stress (e.g., Gates 1990, Fagoonee et al. 1999, Brown et al. 1999, Fitt et al. 2000; see also section 4.2 ).”
Coral bleaching, bleaching-induced mortality, and the adaptive significance of the bleaching response (2008, background): “It follows that in a recovery phase, corals must be relying on either energy stores, which decrease in some bleached corals (Porter et al. 1989; Fitt et al. 2000 ), but not others (Edmunds et al. 2003), or heterotrophic feeding to support daily needs.”
Relationship between symbiont density and photosynthetic carbon acquisition in the temperate coral Cladocora caespitosa (2010, background): “Field studies demonstrate annual variation in zooxanthella density of between two and 10-fold, both in tropical (Brown et al. 1999; Fagoonee et al. 1999; Fitt et al. 2000 ) and temperate species (Rodolfo-Metalpa et al. 2008a).”
Energetics approach to predicting mortality risk from environmental stress: a case study of coral bleaching (2009, methodology): “Variables and parameters used in functional response models Parameter Estimate Species Source ChlMax 7 (2) A. palmata Fitt et al. 2000 12 (3) A. intermedia Anthony et al. 2007 a 0·30 (0·04) M. monasteriata This study 0·55 (0·09) A. formosa This study PChl Max 38·2 (2·3) M. monasteriata This study…”
In situ photobiology of corals over large depth ranges: A multivariate analysis on the roles of environment, host, and algal symbiont (2008, background): “toward the deeper reef (McCloskey and Muscatine 1984; Fitt et al. 2000).”
Fluctuating algal symbiont communities in Acropora palifera (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) from Taiwan (2005, background): “It is well-documented that algal density fluctuations are directly influenced by changing solar radiation levels and seawater temperatures (Brown et al. 1999, Fitt et al. 2000).”
Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks (2007, background): “WSSTA summarized temperature anomalies throughout the year, including winter anomalies that might also affect the susceptibility of corals to disease [46].”