Elevated temperature and light enhance progression and spread of black band disease on staghorn corals of the Great Barrier Reef

Boyett, Holly V.; Bourne, David G.; Willis, Bette L.

doi:10.1007/s00227-006-0603-y

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“…Enhancement of BBD progression rates under higher temperatures on GBR corals has also been demonstrated experimentally (Boyett et al 2007), which further supports the positive association between temperature and BBD virulence found in the present study. Importantly, positive correlations between BBD activity and sea water temperature suggest that warmer ocean conditions will lead to longer BBD outbreak events and more rapid tissue loss, thus more intense degradation of Indo-Pacific coral populations.…”

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Dynamics of seasonal outbreaks of black band disease in an assemblage of Montipora species at Pelorus Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)

2009

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Recurring summer outbreaks of black band disease (BBD) on an inshore reef in the central Great Barrier Reef (GBR) constitute the first recorded BBD epizootic in the region. In a 2.7 year study of 485 colonies of Montipora species, BBD affected up to 10 per cent of colonies in the assemblage. Mean maximum abundance of BBD reached 16G6 colonies per 100 m 2 (nZ3 quadrats, each 100 m 2 ) in summer, and decreased to 0-1 colony per 100 m 2 in winter. On average, BBD lesions caused 40 per cent tissue loss and 5 per cent of infections led to whole colony mortality. BBD reappearance on previously infected colonies and continuous tissue loss after the BBD signs had disappeared suggest that the disease impacts are of longer duration than indicated by the presence of characteristic signs. Rates of new infections and linear progression of lesions were both positively correlated with seasonal fluctuations in sea water temperatures and light, suggesting that seasonal increases in these environmental parameters promote virulence of the disease. Overall, the impacts of BBD are greater than previously reported on the GBR and likely to escalate with ocean warming.

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Dynamics of seasonal outbreaks of black band disease in an assemblage of Montipora species at Pelorus Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)

2009

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“…Lawrence, 2004;Sabaté, 2006;Ward et al, 2007;Webster, 2007). A majority of these studies deal with mass mortalities observed in different coral species and other sessile invertebrates (Perez et al, 2000;Kushmaro et al, 2001;Boyett et al, 2007;Remily & Richardson, 2006;Ward et al, 2007). From these various investigations we know that temperature anomalies on tropical coral reefs routinely exceed coral stress thresholds, with temperature considered to be a critical variable in coral hostpathogen systems.…”

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Temperature induced disease in the starfish Astropecten jonstoni

Staehli

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Mar. Biodivers. Rec.

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“…Temporal as well as spatial changes in coral disease prevalence are common (Sutherland et al 2004, Harvell et al 2009) and often relate to seasonal shifts in environmental conditions, such as temperature (Edmunds 1991, Kuta & Richardson 1996, Bruckner & Bruckner 1997, Patterson et al 2002, Jones et al 2004b, Boyett et al 2007, Bruno et al 2007, Sato et al 2009, Zvuloni et al 2009). Environmental stress impairs coral host immunity and promotes pathogen virulence (Fitt et al 2001, Blanford et al 2003, Lafferty & Holt 2003, Ward et al 2007).…”

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Spatial and temporal patterns of scleractinian coral, soft coral, and zoanthid disease on a remote, near-pristine coral reef (Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific)

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Dis. Aquat. Org.

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Elevated temperature and light enhance progression and spread of black band disease on staghorn corals of the Great Barrier Reef

Cited by 102 publications

References 48 publications

Dynamics of seasonal outbreaks of black band disease in an assemblage of Montipora species at Pelorus Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)

Dynamics of seasonal outbreaks of black band disease in an assemblage of Montipora species at Pelorus Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia)

Temperature induced disease in the starfish Astropecten jonstoni

Spatial and temporal patterns of scleractinian coral, soft coral, and zoanthid disease on a remote, near-pristine coral reef (Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific)

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