Repeated and Prolonged Temperature Anomalies Negate Symbiodiniaceae Genera Shuffling in the Coral Platygyra verweyi (Scleractinia; Merulinidae).

作者：Kuo-Wei Kao, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Cing-Hsin Tsao, Jih‐Terng Wang, Chaolun Allen Chen · 发表于：PubMed · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.6620/zs.2018.57-55 · 被引用次数：33 · 研究领域：Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies、Marine and coastal plant biology、Marine and fisheries research

(formerly D1a), the effects of accumulated thermal stress due to prolonged high temperatures on the survival of corals that have shuffled have not been investigated. We show herein that prolonged exposure to high temperature (> 10.43-degree heating weeks) can drastically reduce coral survival rate even after it has shuffled to stress-tolerant Symbiodiniaceae genera. Our study suggests that there is a limit to the capacity of for shuffling, and hence is likely to lose its efficacy in the future as repeated and prolonged thermal stress events become more frequent and pronounced.