Data from: Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching

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  • Mass bleaching events have devastated coral reefs globally. While management organizations assume reducing local stressors like overfishing will increase coral resilience to climate-induced warming, recent large-scale studies suggest local conservation actions do not protect corals. We conducted a global survey of managers and found that removing coral-eating organisms (i.e., corallivores) is a common but untested strategy intended to increase coral resilience. Removal of a common corallivorous snail before a widespread coral bleaching in Florida in 2014 showed that this strategy increases both coral resistance to and recovery from heat-induced bleaching (i.e., resilience). At natural-high and average snail densities, corals experienced 89% and 71% bleaching levels, respectively, with tissue mortality of 36% and 17%, respectively. Almost 20% of corals with snails died from heat-induced bleaching, while no corals died from bleaching if snails had been removed. Removing snails reduced bleaching to 57% and tissue mortality to 7%. This study is the first to track corals through the entirety of a high stress event and demonstrate that reducing local biological stressors can increase coral resilience to a changing climate. ... [Read More]

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  • Shaver, E. C., Burkepile, D. E., Silliman, B. R. (2017). Data from: Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching. Duke Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/G8348HFP
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  • 10.7924/G8348HFP
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  • June 2014 - June 2017
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  • Shaver, E. C., Burkepile, D. E., & Silliman, B. R. (2018). Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(7), 1075–1079.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0589-0
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  • Elizabeth Shaver: ORCID: 0000-0002-9039-372X
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