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Temporal dynamics of black band disease affecting pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) following two consecutive hyperthermal events on the Florida Reef Tract
- Source :
- Coral Reefs. 36:427-431
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Black band disease (BBD) affects many coral species worldwide and is considered a major contributor to the decline of reef-building coral. On the Florida Reef Tract BBD is most prevalent during summer and early fall when water temperatures exceed 29 °C. BBD is rarely reported in pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) throughout the Caribbean, and here we document for the first time the appearance of the disease in this species on Florida reefs. The highest monthly BBD prevalence in the D. cylindrus population were 4.7% in 2014 and 6.8% in 2015. In each year, BBD appeared immediately following a hyperthermal bleaching event, which raises concern as hyperthermal seawater anomalies become more frequent.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Coral bleaching
Coral
Population
Aquatic Science
Biology
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Cylindrus
medicine
skin and connective tissue diseases
education
Reef
Dendrogyra cylindrus
education.field_of_study
geography
Pillar coral
geography.geographical_feature_category
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
fungi
technology, industry, and agriculture
Black band disease
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
030104 developmental biology
Oceanography
population characteristics
geographic locations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320975 and 07224028
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Coral Reefs
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3ccd9831396cc2d92af562b87f96b0bc
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-017-1545-1