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    Uncovering the role of Symbiodiniaceae assemblage composition and abundance in coral bleaching response by minimizing sampling and evolutionary biases

    Biodiversity and productivity of coral-reef ecosystems depend upon reef-building corals and their associations with endosymbiotic Symbiodiniaceae, which offer diverse functional capabilities to their hosts. The n...

    Timothy D. Swain, Simon Lax, Vadim Backman, Luisa A. Marcelino in BMC Microbiology (2020)

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    Bleaching response of coral species in the context of assemblage response

    Caribbean coral reefs are declining due to a mosaic of local and global stresses, including climate change-induced thermal stress. Species and assemblage responses differ due to factors that are not easily id...

    Timothy D. Swain, Emily DuBois, Scott J. Goldberg, Vadim Backman in Coral Reefs (2017)

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    Skeletal light-scattering accelerates bleaching response in reef-building corals

    At the forefront of ecosystems adversely affected by climate change, coral reefs are sensitive to anomalously high temperatures which disassociate (bleaching) photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) from coral ho...

    Timothy D. Swain, Emily DuBois, Andrew Gomes, Valentina P. Stoyneva in BMC Ecology (2016)