Dataset: The effects of nutrient enrichment and predation on coral health and microbiomes from June to August 2013 in Key Largo, FL (small grazers facilitating fungal disease project)

This dataset has not been validatedPreliminary and in progressVersion 2017-09-26 (2017-09-26)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Brian Silliman (University of Florida)

Co-Principal Investigator, Contact: Elizabeth Shaver (University of Florida)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Small Grazers, Multiple Stressors and the Proliferation of Fungal Disease in Marine Plant Ecosystems (small grazers facilitating fungal disease)

To assess how predation and nutrients affect corals and their microbiomes, we exposed colonies of A. cervicornis to a fully factorial field experiment from June to August 2013. This coral species is currently listed as ‘threatened’ under the US Endangered Species Act (NOAA Fisheries 2015) and ‘critically endangered’ under the IUCN Red List (Aronson et al. 2008); therefore, this experiment could not be conducted in natural reef settings or with already-restored colonies. Thus, we conducted this experiment in the Coral Restoration Foundation’s coral nursery in Key Largo, FL, USA in an open sand flat (30-ft depth) using corals grown through established propagation techniques (Johnson et al. 2011).

Related References:
Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil. 2008. Acropora cervicornis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T133381A3716457. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T133381A3716457.en.
Meaghan E. Johnson, Caitlin Lustic, Erich Bartels, Iliana B. Baums, David S. Gilliam, Elizabeth Anne Larson, Diego Lirman, Margaret W. Miller, Ken Nedimyer, and S. Schopmeyer. 2011. Caribbean Acropora Restoration Guide: Best Practices for Propagation and Population Enhancement : 1 -64. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facreports/71.
Shaver, E. C., Shantz, A. A., McMinds, R., Burkepile, D. E., Vega Thurber, R. L. and Silliman, B. R. (2017), Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the success and microbiome of a foundational coral. Ecology, 98: 830–839. doi:10.1002/ecy.1709


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Results

Shaver, E. C., Shantz, A. A., McMinds, R., Burkepile, D. E., Vega Thurber, R. L., & Silliman, B. R. (2017). Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the success and microbiome of a foundational coral. Ecology, 98(3), 830–839. doi:10.1002/ecy.1709
Methods

Caribbean Acropora Restoration Guide: Best Practices for Propagation and Population Enhancement http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facreports/71
Methods

Cribari-Neto, F., & Zeileis, A. (2010). Beta Regression inR. Journal of Statistical Software, 34(2). doi:10.18637/jss.v034.i02
Related Research

(2008). Acropora cervicornis: Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. doi:10.2305/iucn.uk.2008.rlts.t133381a3716457.en