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Description:
Title:
Exploratory Treatments for Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease: Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus)
Author(s):
Miller, Carl V.
May, Lisa A.
Moffitt, Zachary J.
Woodley, Cheryl M.
United States. National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
Corporate Name:
United States. National Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)
Dates of Publication:
2020
Abstract:
Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) is a rare Caribbean coral with only one species in its genus. Because of population declines, the species was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2014 (Federal Register 2014). By 2020, the species had further catastrophic population declines of an estimated 70 % along the Florida Reef Tract from back-to-back bleaching events, white plague, and a spreading disease now referred to as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) (Precht 2016; Neely et al. 2017; FKNMS 2018). The estimated number of surviving genotypes within the Florida population has declined from 181 to 51 (Neely personal communication March 2020). The remaining population is assumed to be reproductively extinct and at high risk for regional extinction (Neely et al. 2017). At least 40 of the remaining genotypes are heavily diseased or have less than 5% tissue remaining (Neely et al. 2020). In 2016, a multi-institutional collaboration was initiated to rescue remaining genotypes from the wild and place them into ex situ and in situ nurseries. As part of this effort, the NOAA NOS NCCOS Coral Health and Disease Program participated by conducting exploratory experimentation to treat, recover and rehabilitate diseased D. cylindrus genotypes.
Keywords:
Coral reef conservation
Diseases
Endangered species
Fishes
Treatment
Place Keywords:
Florida
United States
Mexico, Gulf of
North Atlantic Ocean
Local Corporate Name:
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Technical Memorandum
Genre:
NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ; 245
Note:
Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) is a rare Caribbean coral with only one species in its genus. Because of population declines, the species was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2014 (Federal Register 2014). By 2020, the species had further catastrophic population declines of an estimated 70 % along the Florida Reef Tract from back-to-back bleaching events, white plague, and a spreading disease now referred to as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) (Precht 2016; Neely et al. 2017; FKNMS 2018). The estimated number of surviving genotypes within the Florida population has declined from 181 to 51 (Neely personal communication March 2020). The remaining population is assumed to be reproductively extinct and at high risk for regional extinction (Neely et al. 2017). At least 40 of the remaining genotypes are heavily diseased or have less than 5% tissue remaining (Neely et al. 2020). In 2016, a multi-institutional collaboration was initiated to rescue remaining genotypes from the wild and place them into ex situ and in situ nurseries. As part of this effort, the NOAA NOS NCCOS Coral Health and Disease Program participated by conducting exploratory experimentation to treat, recover and rehabilitate diseased D. cylindrus genotypes.
2020
NOS (National Ocean Service)
NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Submitted
https://doi.org/10.25923/d632-jc82
CRCP Project ; 1133
Public Domain
1936
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