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Responses of Coral Reefs to Climate Change
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Responses of Coral Reefs to Climate Change

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Environmental Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 6005

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Keisha Bahr

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Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
Interests: marine ecology and biodiversity; coral reef ecology and conservation; carbonate chemistry; ecophysiology; integrated coastal management
Dr. Heather Page

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Guest Editor
Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Interests: coral reef ecology and conservation; seawater carbonate chemistry; climate change impacts; coral restoration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is about to launch a Special Issue dedicated to Responses of Coral Reefs to Climate Change. Coral reefs have immense biological wealth and provide economic and environmental services (e.g., tourism, fisheries, wave protection) for millions of people; however, reefs throughout the world are undergoing significant ecological change due to climate change. This Special Issue will focus on understanding the impacts of climate changes on corals and coral reefs. We welcome topics that cover climate change impacts on the ecology, physiology, and biodiversity of coral reefs. We also welcome articles focused on mitigation strategies, applied research, and adaptive research, as well as socioeconomic linkages between humans and coral reefs.

Dr. Keisha Bahr
Dr. Heather Page
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • coral reefs
  • climate change
  • ocean acidification
  • ocean warming
  • ecophysiology
  • conservation
  • coral restoration

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Ocean Acidification and Direct Interactions Affect Coral, Macroalga, and Sponge Growth in the Florida Keys
by Heather N. Page, Clay Hewett, Hayden Tompkins and Emily R. Hall
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(7), 739; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9070739 - 4 Jul 2021
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Coral reef community composition, function, and resilience have been altered by natural and anthropogenic stressors. Future anthropogenic ocean and coastal acidification (together termed “acidification”) may exacerbate this reef degradation. Accurately predicting reef resilience requires an understanding of not only direct impacts of acidification [...] Read more.
Coral reef community composition, function, and resilience have been altered by natural and anthropogenic stressors. Future anthropogenic ocean and coastal acidification (together termed “acidification”) may exacerbate this reef degradation. Accurately predicting reef resilience requires an understanding of not only direct impacts of acidification on marine organisms but also indirect effects on species interactions that influence community composition and reef ecosystem functions. In this 28-day experiment, we assessed the effect of acidification on coral–algal, coral–sponge, and algal–sponge interactions. We quantified growth of corals (Siderastrea radians), fleshy macroalgae (Dictyota spp.), and sponges (Pione lampa) that were exposed to local summer ambient (603 μatm) or elevated (1105 μatm) pCO2 seawater. These species are common to hard-bottom communities, including shallow reefs, in the Florida Keys. Each individual was maintained in isolation or paired with another organism. Coral growth (net calcification) was similar across seawater pCO2 and interaction treatments. Fleshy macroalgae had increased biomass when paired with a sponge but lost biomass when growing in isolation or paired with coral. Sponges grew more volumetrically in the elevated seawater pCO2 treatment (i.e., under acidification conditions). Although these results are limited in temporal and spatial scales due to the experimental design, they do lend support to the hypothesis that acidification may facilitate a shift towards increased sponge and macroalgae abundance by directly benefiting sponge growth which in turn may provide more dissolved inorganic nitrogen to macroalgae in the Florida Keys. Full article
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