Editorial: biodiversity of Caribbean coral reefs (with a focus on the Dutch Caribbean)

Hoeksema, Bert W.; Reimer, James Davis; Vonk, Ronald

doi:10.1007/s12526-017-0641-3

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“…The corals of Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea) were collected at the Saudi Arabian Red Sea (25°39′24.49″N, 36°42′43.46″E, Al Wajh Bank, date 01.02.2016, depth 2 m, water T 17 °C) and the Dutch Caribbean island Sint Eustatius (17°27.877′N, 062°58.645′W, date 26.06.2015, depth 6 m, water T 27 °C), respectively 65 , 66 , 73 , 74 .…”

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Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

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Corals harbor complex and diverse microbial communities that strongly impact host fitness and resistance to diseases, but these microbes themselves can be influenced by stresses, like those caused by the presence of macroscopic symbionts. In addition to directly influencing the host, symbionts may transmit pathogenic microbial communities. We analyzed two coral gall-forming copepod systems by using 16S rRNA gene metagenomic sequencing: (1) the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina with copepods of the genus Sphaerippe from the Caribbean and (2) the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata with copepods of the genus Spaniomolgus from the Saudi Arabian part of the Red Sea. We show that bacterial communities in these two systems were substantially different with Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Betaproteobacteria more prevalent in samples from Gorgonia ventalina, and Gammaproteobacteria in Stylophora pistillata. In Stylophora pistillata, normal coral microbiomes were enriched with the common coral symbiont Endozoicomonas and some unclassified bacteria, while copepod and gall-tissue microbiomes were highly enriched with the family ME2 (Oceanospirillales) or Rhodobacteraceae. In Gorgonia ventalina, no bacterial group had significantly different prevalence in the normal coral tissues, copepods, and injured tissues. The total microbiome composition of polyps injured by copepods was different. Contrary to our expectations, the microbial community composition of the injured gall tissues was not directly affected by the microbiome of the gall-forming symbiont copepods.

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Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

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“…Our dataset increases the knowledge of southwest Puerto Rico's altiphotic and mesophotic fish, coral, and sponge assemblages. We highlight the need to continue monitoring this dynamic ecosystem and emphasize that it is crucial to perform long-term time series assessments of the general area to fully assess any fluctuations in community structure (i.e., abundance, dominant species shift, disease, bleaching) (Wulff, 2001(Wulff, , 2006Easson et al, 2015) and preservation of the overall marine biodiversity (Miloslavich et al, 2010;Jenkins and van Houtan, 2016;Hoeksema et al, 2017). This study demonstrates that altiphotic and mesophotic reefs across the Guánica continental shelf edge support different assemblages of corals, sponges and fish.…”

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Fish, Coral, and Sponge Assemblages Associated With Altiphotic and Mesophotic Reefs Along the Guánica Biosphere Reserve Continental Shelf Edge, Southwest Puerto Rico

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The benthic and fish communities of the central portion of the Guánica, Puerto Rico shelf edge were studied to determine species abundance, distributions and species overlap between two depth stratifications, 20 and 45 m, at eight sites. A total of 67 fish species belonging to 21 families were identified. Similar species richness estimates were observed between depths, though fish assemblage composition differed significantly, with observable changes in feeding guild contributions of herbivore and omnivore (20 m) to a deeper assemblage composed of piscivores and planktivores (45 m). Coral assemblages consisted of 31 species at 20 m and 11 species at 45 m, accounting for 17.0% (±1.76 SE) and 2.6% (±0.89 SE) benthic cover for the altiphotic and mesophotic surveys, respectively. The altiphotic and mesophotic coral reef communities support different scleractinian coral assemblages with minimal species overlap. Altiphotic surveys of sponges yielded a higher species richness than mesophotic, with 60 and 54 species respectively, and an overall total of 71 species identified from both depths, with 45 species overlapping (63.0%). The percent cover of sponges surveyed at altiphotic reefs accounted for 9.0% (±1.04 SE), while the percent cover of sponges surveyed at mesophotic reefs was 14.0% (±1.96 SE). Our data show fish, coral, and sponge assemblages are differentiated between 20 and 45 m along the Guánica shelf edge offshore of the Guánica Biosphere Reserve. This study represents the first observations for species distributions of adjacent altiphotic and mesophotic coral reef habitats along the Guánica shelf edge, as well as provides an annotated species list of the local sponge fauna. Combined, these results highlight the need for continued environmental stewardship and conservation in the area.

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“…The Greater Caribbean (The Caribbean s.l.) in the present review consists of the Caribbean Sea plus the Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda (Spalding et al, 2007;Hoeksema et al, 2017a). The Caribbean Sea (Caribbean s.s.) is a large semi-enclosed sea of the western Atlantic Ocean with clear and warm water (22-29°C) and low tidal amplitude (0.4 m) (Kinder et al, 1985).…”

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“…It is recognized as a global marine biodiversity hot spot and an important biogeographic coral reef province (Spalding et al, 2001;Roberts et al, 2002;Miloslavich et al, 2010;Alvarado, 2011). The Greater Caribbean includes ten marine ecoregions: Northern Gulf of Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico, Floridian, Western Caribbean, Greater Antillean, Southwestern Caribbean, Southern Caribbean, Eastern Caribbean, Bahamian, and Bermudian (Burke & Maidens, 2004;Spalding et al, 2007;Hoeksema et al, 2017a). The Bahamian and Bermudian are adjacent to the temperate northwestern Atlantic.…”

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“…Symbiotic copepods are reported from eight out of ten ecoregions of the Greater Caribbean, but none from the Northern and Southern Gulf of Mexico (table 6, figs. 4-7; Spalding et al, 2007;Hoeksema et al, 2017a). Eight records are known for Bermuda: four species of poecilostomatoid cyclopoids representing genus Acanthomolgus and the siphonostomatoid Ophiopsyllus reductus were found associated with alcyonaceans and an ophiuroid, respectively (Stock et al, 1963a;Humes, 1973).…”

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A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges

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This review of copepod crustaceans associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, sponges and echinoderms of the Greater Caribbean is based on published records, systematically arranged by the classification of symbiotic copepods and their hosts, sampling sites, coordinates, depth and date of sampling, literature sources, and three recent surveys (Cuba, St. Eustatius in the Eastern Caribbean and Curaçao in the Southern Caribbean). This resulted in totals of 532 records of 115 species of symbiotic copepods (47 genera, 17 families, three orders) hosted by 80 species of invertebrates, representing scleractinians (47%), octocorals (9%), echinoderms (3%), and sponges (1%). Among ten Caribbean ecoregions, the Greater Antilles (with 64 species of symbiotic copepods) as well as the Southern and Eastern Caribbean (with 46 and 17 species of copepods, respectively) are the most studied and best represented, whereas only six species of copepods are known from Bermuda, one from Southwestern Caribbean and none from the Gulf of Mexico. The absence of poecilostomatoid copepods (Anchimolgidae, Rhynchomolgidae and Xarifidae) on Caribbean stony corals as noted by Stock (1988) is confirmed. The results indicate that the diversity and ecology of Caribbean symbiotic copepods are still poorly investigated.

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Editorial: biodiversity of Caribbean coral reefs (with a focus on the Dutch Caribbean)

Cited by 18 publications

References 124 publications

Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

Fish, Coral, and Sponge Assemblages Associated With Altiphotic and Mesophotic Reefs Along the Guánica Biosphere Reserve Continental Shelf Edge, Southwest Puerto Rico

A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges

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