Disease in natural populations depends on the interaction between a host and a parasite, but the environment may also modify this interaction. In this dissertation, I explore how abiotic and biotic components of a host’s environment alter health and disease in the sea fan octocoral, Gorgonia ventalina. As ectotherms, corals are particularly sensitive to the environment and thus a priority for studying broader questions about environmental drivers of disease. The microbiome is an essential component of the holobiont that can shift under stressful conditions and alter host susceptibility. In Chapter 1, I compare sea fan and scleractinian bacterial communities across the warm thermal anomaly of 2010. Bacterial communities shifted in sea fans...
This study examines the implications of disease for the structure and resilience of Great Barrier Re...
Coral reefs are biologically and economically important ecosystems underpinned by corals that are ab...
Coral diseases are a major threat to coral reef health and functioning worldwide. Little is known ab...
Disease is an ecological process that regulates hosts, but does not affect all host populations and ...
Warming environments can alter the outcome of host-parasite relationships with important consequence...
Coral reefs are in decline due to increases in coral disease. We suspect that one of the main source...
Degree awarded: M.S. Biology. American UniversityCoral reefs are in decline due to increases in cora...
Rapidly changing climate regimes combined with other anthropogenic pressures are implicated in incre...
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Global increases in coral disease prevalence have been linked to ocean ...
Reef-building corals are long-lived and may take many centuries to adapt, making them especially sus...
Emerging infectious diseases are a worldwide problem and are believed to play a major role in coral ...
At every moment, a tropical reef coral interacts with millions of microbial organisms from tens of t...
Coral diseases are causing significant levels of coral mortality at a global scale, based on the fre...
Climate changes are causing bacteria on many coral reefs to rapidly proliferate resulting in a major...
BACKGROUND: Climate warming is causing environmental change making both marine and terrestrial organ...
This study examines the implications of disease for the structure and resilience of Great Barrier Re...
Coral reefs are biologically and economically important ecosystems underpinned by corals that are ab...
Coral diseases are a major threat to coral reef health and functioning worldwide. Little is known ab...
Disease is an ecological process that regulates hosts, but does not affect all host populations and ...
Warming environments can alter the outcome of host-parasite relationships with important consequence...
Coral reefs are in decline due to increases in coral disease. We suspect that one of the main source...
Degree awarded: M.S. Biology. American UniversityCoral reefs are in decline due to increases in cora...
Rapidly changing climate regimes combined with other anthropogenic pressures are implicated in incre...
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Global increases in coral disease prevalence have been linked to ocean ...
Reef-building corals are long-lived and may take many centuries to adapt, making them especially sus...
Emerging infectious diseases are a worldwide problem and are believed to play a major role in coral ...
At every moment, a tropical reef coral interacts with millions of microbial organisms from tens of t...
Coral diseases are causing significant levels of coral mortality at a global scale, based on the fre...
Climate changes are causing bacteria on many coral reefs to rapidly proliferate resulting in a major...
BACKGROUND: Climate warming is causing environmental change making both marine and terrestrial organ...
This study examines the implications of disease for the structure and resilience of Great Barrier Re...
Coral reefs are biologically and economically important ecosystems underpinned by corals that are ab...
Coral diseases are a major threat to coral reef health and functioning worldwide. Little is known ab...