Coral Health and DiseaseEugene Rosenberg, Yossi Loya Coral reefs are the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems in the marine environment. Over the last decades, however, dramatic declines of coral reef communities have been observed. Corals are endangered due to natural and anthropogenic detrimental factors, such as global warming and environmental pollution. Based on an international meeting on "Coral Health and Disease" in Eilat, Israel in April 2003, the book starts with case studies of reefs, e.g. the Red Sea, Caribbean, Japan, Indian Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. The second part on microbial ecology and physiology describes the symbiotic relations of corals and microbes, and the microbial role in nutrition or bleaching resistance of corals. Particular coral diseases such as aspergillosis, white pox, black and white band diseases are treated in the third part. Finally, various hypotheses of the mechanisms of coral bleaching, including a projection of the future of coral reefs, are discussed. |
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Coral Reef Diseases in the Wider Caribbean | 35 |
Coral Disease on the Great Barrier Reef | 69 |
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Coral Diseases in Gulf of México Reefs | 105 |
References | 140 |
Symbiont Diversity on Coral Reefs and Its Relationship | 177 |
Stress Effects on Metabolism and Photosynthesis | 195 |
White Pox Disease of the Caribbean Elkhorn Coral | 297 |
TemperatureRegulated Bleaching and Tissue Lysis of Pocillopora | 301 |
Black Band Disease | 325 |
Dark Spots Disease and Yellow Band Disease Two Poorly Known | 337 |
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White Plague White Band and Other White Diseases | 351 |
Monitoring the Health of Coral Reef Ecosystems | 366 |
Coral Resistance to Disease | 377 |
What Can Regeneration Processes Tell Us About Coral Disease? | 217 |
Bacteria as a Source of Coral Nutrition | 231 |
Antimicrobial Activity of Sponges and Corals 243 | 242 |
Microbial Communities of Coral Surface Mucopolysaccharide Layers | 259 |
CultureIndependent Analyses of CoralAssociated Microbes | 265 |
Aspergillosis of Gorgonians | 279 |
Coral Bleaching | 396 |
The Adaptive Hypothesis of Bleaching 427 | 426 |
The Bacterial Disease Hypothesis of Coral Bleaching | 445 |
Coral Reefs and Projections of Future Change | 463 |
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