| Title |
Environmental Symbiont Acquisition May Not Be the Solution to Warming Seas for Reef-Building Corals
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0013258 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mary Alice Coffroth, Daniel M. Poland, Eleni L. Petrou, Daniel A. Brazeau, Jennie C. Holmberg |
| Abstract |
Coral reefs worldwide are in decline. Much of the mortality can be attributed to coral bleaching (loss of the coral's intracellular photosynthetic algal symbiont) associated with global warming. How corals will respond to increasing oceanic temperatures has been an area of extensive study and debate. Recovery after a bleaching event is dependent on regaining symbionts, but the source of repopulating symbionts is poorly understood. Possibilities include recovery from the proliferation of endogenous symbionts or recovery by uptake of exogenous stress-tolerant symbionts. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 237 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Guadeloupe | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 224 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 56 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 41 | 17% |
| Researcher | 38 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 13% |
| Unknown | 31 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 125 | 53% |
| Environmental Science | 36 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 6% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 11 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 3% |
| Unknown | 38 | 16% |