BioProject

Here we conducted a series of 18-hour short-term acute heat stress assays using CBASS (Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System) side-by-side with a 21-day long-term heat stress experiment (CLASSIC) to assess the ability of both approaches to resolve putative differences in coral thermotolerance and to approximate in situ reef temperature thresholds. More...

Here we conducted a series of 18-hour short-term acute heat stress assays using CBASS (Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System) side-by-side with a 21-day long-term heat stress experiment (CLASSIC) to assess the ability of both approaches to resolve putative differences in coral thermotolerance and to approximate in situ reef temperature thresholds. Using a suite of physiological parameters (photosynthetic efficiency, coral whitening, chlorophyll a, host protein, algal symbiont counts, and algal type association), we assessed bleaching susceptibility of Stylophora pistillata colonies from the windward/exposed and leeward/protected sides of a near-shore coral reef in the central Red Sea, which had previously shown differential mortality during a natural bleaching event. Less...