Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Temporal Dynamics of Black Band Disease Affecting Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) following Two Consecutive Hyperthermal Events on the Florida Reef Tract
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2017
Publication Title
Coral Reefs
Keywords
Black band disease, Coral bleaching, Dendrogyra cylindrus, Florida reef tract
ISSN
0722-4028
Volume
36
Issue/No.
2
First Page
427
Last Page
431
Abstract
Black band disease (BBD) affects many coral species worldwide and is considered a major contributor to the decline of reef-building coral. On the Florida Reef Tract BBD is most prevalent during summer and early fall when water temperatures exceed 29°C. BBD is rarely reported in pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) throughout the Caribbean, and here we document for the first time the appearance of the disease in this species on Florida reefs. The highest monthly BBD prevalence in the D. cylindrus population were 4.7% in 2014 and 6.8% in 2015. In each year, BBD appeared immediately following a hyperthermal bleaching event, which raises concern as hyperthermal seawater anomalies become more frequent.
Additional Comments
NSF RAPID grant #: 1503483
NSUWorks Citation
Cynthia L. Lewis, Karen L. Neely, Laurie L. Richardson, and Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty. 2017. Temporal Dynamics of Black Band Disease Affecting Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) following Two Consecutive Hyperthermal Events on the Florida Reef Tract .Coral Reefs , (2) : 427 -431. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/956.
ORCID ID
0000-0003-0934-3256
DOI
10.1007/s00338-017-1545-1
Comments
©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017