[Coral-List] Dendrogyra

Wed Jun 9 00:43:41 UTC 2021

Dendrogyra is highly susceptible to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. Did anyone document these colonies during their decline?

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> On May 31, 2021, at 8:28 AM, Belize TREC via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
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> I have lived in Belize since 1994. Since then I have visited 2 massive Dendrogyra stands directly in front of San Pedro about 25 times per year. It was in relatively pristine condition in March 2020 when I left for the States to get vaccinated. Upon my return in May 2021 I was horrified to find 100% of these stands dead. I have seen some grow out tables as well with staghorn doing well but Dendrogyra dying. I think we may shortly lose this species in this entire area if not the country. For the hopeful there is more bad news. If you have not read the recently posted review of propagation programs posted on the coral list only 1% of these programs appear to have significant growth after 5 years. It is time to start preparing coast lines for what is surely inevitable. Dr. Ken Mattes, Belize Tropical Research & Education Center
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>   1. Re: Summary of Goals from Other Listers/Science Not Politics
>      will Save our Ecosystems (Nohora Galvis)
>   2. Works on Coral Reef of Colombia (Tarini L?pez)
>   3. Re: Summary of Goals from Other Listers/Science (Franziska Elmer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 11:59:28 -0500
> From: Nohora Galvis <icri.colombia at gmail.com>
> To: Nathan Mccall <namccall at ucsc.edu>
> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Summary of Goals from Other Listers/Science
>        Not Politics will Save our Ecosystems
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> Thanks Nathan, for sharing your thoughts. In fact, decision-making
> guidance can help or hinder potential solutions based on science and
> expert knowledge.
> 
> Thinking about clear threats and goals is the first step to get
> solutions. I agree with the recent John Ogden?s Post, start by
> identifying and addressing the threats to coral reefs: Pollution (land
> based pollution (runoff, disposal, and aerial sources); Resource
> Extraction / Destruction (fishing, mining, dredging); and Climate
> Change. Always, keep in mind that effective local management matters
> to save coral reefs as published by Nancy Knowlton on her recent paper
> on Science: PERSPECTIVE MARINE ECOLOGY.
> 
> Contributing further to develop your ideas, I invite you and the coral
> listers at the ICRS2021. Specifically to listen to my talk:
> Implementing SDG 14 in Colombia to improve Coral Reef Conservation
> Effectiveness.
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> 2021-05-27 14:46 GMT-05:00, Nathan Mccall via Coral-List
> <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>:
>> Dear Listers,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am new to this email listing, but I am very moved by the emails that you
>> have sent regarding the situation regarding ecosystems, specifically ones
>> involving coral reefs, are changing around the world.
>> 
>> Here is a paper about the changing ocean temperatures?
>> 
>> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00376-021-0447-x.pdf
>> 
>> Even if we stopped emissions today, the climate has irreversibly changed
>> across the world. Positive feedback loops are already starting for the
>> worse.
>> 
>> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608041/
>> 
>> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632717/
>> 
>> I am not trying to be all doom and gloom, but as an undergraduate who has
>> watched forest fires almost consume my University last year due to climate
>> change, I think as scientists, we should approach this problem
>> realistically.
>> 
>> Here are some of the goals that were presented by some of the listers:
>> 
>> Let?s tackle the root of every goal and how to achieve them.
>> 
>> 1. Lower Carbon Emissions
>> 
>> If you want to change 7 billion people?s lifestyles, please let me know how
>> you are going to do that, I cannot think of ways besides improving
>> technology surrounding replacing carbon emitting machines. As countries
>> around the world develop towards looking like the ?western countries? like
>> the United States, why would they approach development differently than us
>> if they cannot afford to be sustainable.
>> 
>> Proposition: Improve cheaper engines that are non-carbon emitting (cars,
>> electricity, transportation) and sustainable
>> 
>> 2. Address Climate Change, Learn to value nature and more sustainable
>> lifestyles,
>> 
>> If we stopped emitting carbon dioxide today, there would still be great
>> change across the world?s ecosystems. Addressing climate change is already
>> something that everyone on this listing probably does. To put the weight of
>> sustainability on the common people of this world without looking at those
>> that produce the most carbon emissions, the capitalistic organizations
>> without any sort of regulation is outright ignorant. 100 companies produce
>> 71% of GHG emissions around the world. When people are presented without a
>> choice to be sustainable because they cannot live due to being in poverty,
>> why should they be the ones to be responsible for this planet? Many people
>> never had a choice to begin with.
>> 
>> 3. Clean up the water(and the air,land/soil)
>> 
>> Usually, this sounds like a great idea. However, we need to address the
>> root problem about clean environments. How will we reduce runoff from
>> precipitation, agriculture, fertilizers, and everything that spills into
>> the ocean and our land without proper mitigation efforts? Research has been
>> done to figure out how to eliminate nitrogen, fertilizers, oil runoff, etc.
>> from our waterways, land, and air, but if you are interested, people
>> reading this should find how scientists today are taking that next step.
>> 
>> 4. Reduce overfishing, Eat lower on the food chain
>> 
>> This can be completely reduced if we find ways to engineer lab grown fish
>> and meat to replace fishing in the oceans. There are already current ways
>> but not cheap enough to replace food in the marketplace. If this is
>> achieved, we can reach this goal.
>> 
>> 5. Support politicians that support conservation
>> 
>> Preaching to the choir is not going to change anything. Let us not waste
>> time on this forum discussing what we already know when we already are
>> running out of time. If you care this much, please provide papers or if
>> there is relevant research that you are conducting, I invite you to share.
>> Science is the one way out of climate change regardless of whether people
>> act in a way that would value nature and sustainable lifestyles as climate
>> is already irrevocably changed. Although we already have seen through this
>> pandemic how many people there are, I do not know if it is worth our time
>> trying to change the minds of the Donald Trumps, Marjorie Taylors, or
>> whatever equivalent politician figure in your country. Also most if not all
>> politicians are driven solely by money from lobbying companies. Please
>> understand that sometimes politics' best interest is not in people, it's in
>> the lining of their pockets.
>> 
>> If I missed any, please let me know. I can probably go deeper in every
>> single goal that was presented by some of the listers. Please. Share
>> papers, share your research, share what you are doing rather than just
>> preaching. Science and innovation will be the one way out of this
>> horrendous mess. However, we are also running out of time.
>> 
>> I am personally interested in Symbiodinium as they are a prime factor in
>> corals? survival. Here are some papers that I am currently reading.
>> 
>> Local adaptation constrains the distribution potential of heat-tolerant
>> *Symbiodinium* from the Persian/Arabian Gulf
>> 
>> https://www.nature.com/articles/ismej201580
>> Symbiont community stability through severe coral bleaching in a thermally
>> extreme lagoon*https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445074/
>> <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445074/> *
>> 
>> Clade D *Symbiodinium* in Scleractinian Corals: A ?Nugget? of Hope, a
>> Selfish Opportunist, an Ominous Sign, or All of the Above?
>> 
>> *https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2011/730715/
>> <https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2011/730715/> *
>> 
>> Regarding Dendrogyra cylindrus, I do not know what the best course of
>> action is. What can I say is that if we cannot mitigate, we must prepare
>> for the impacts once species like D. cylindrus go extinct permanently. What
>> are the impacts on the larger ecosystem if the species fails? What could
>> perhaps replace them if all else fails and we have no choice. What niche
>> opens up when these species stop existing?
>> 
>> I am new to this field; I am only a second-year undergraduate. Please take
>> my opinion with a grain of salt but also understand this is how a
>> 20-year-old undergraduate in science sees the current situation. I am
>> trying my hardest. If my opinions are baseless, please let me know, I do
>> not want to continue forward being blind and ignorant if I am being
>> foolish.
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nathan McCall
>> UCSC Undergraduate, BMEB Declared Major
>> 
>> namccall at ucsc.edu
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> Cordial saludo,
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> Nohora Galvis
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 12:18:35 -0500
> From: Tarini L?pez <itlopezj at gmail.com>
> To: Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov, jogden at usf.edu,
>        steve.gittings at noaa.gov
> Subject: [Coral-List] Works on Coral Reef of Colombia
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> Hi Coral-Listers!
> 
> We want to share our work on coral reefs in Colombia. We hope they
> contribute a little to your knowledge about this incredible ecosystem.
> 
> http://scimar.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/6/IdArt/4626/.
> 
> https://www.scielo.sa.cr/pdf/rbt/v68n3/0034-7744-rbt-68-03-729.pdf
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ibis Tarini L?pez-Jim?nez
> 
> --
> *IT. L?pez-Jim?nez*
> *BSc. Oceanograf?a, **MSc. Ciencias del Mar.*
> 
> *UdeA*
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 23:04:03 +0000
> From: Franziska Elmer <franziskaelmer at hotmail.com>
> To: "coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Summary of Goals from Other Listers/Science
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> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Thanks for the message on the list that shows your concern with the status quo. I agree we have little time left to fix a whole lot of things and need to use our scientist power to the fullest to be part of the solution.  As albert Einstein said "the people who have the privilege of knowing have the duty to act"
> 
> We as scientists have a lot of knowledge other people dont have and we are somewhat trusted, people look to us to see if we are panicing or changing our ways to know if this is really an emergency. So we have the duty to act like it is.
> 
> My personal contributions:
> 
> - used my climate lecture to tell the truth about climate change to my students
> - started a environmental group called climate pirates at our field station
> - engage in direct action
> - write letters to the editor of my local newspaper
> - give talks about the climate crisis and about being the change we want to see (e.g. my TEDx talk
> https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_franziska_elmer_how_a_marine_biologist_turned_climate_pirate_dec_2020)
> - write a newsletter with climate news, events papers to the climate pirate crew
> - focus my research on how to use Sargassum algae for carbon capture
> - organize virtual conferences that allow people to meet without CO2 emissions
> - tell the truth about the climate crisis and about how tranformational the changes need to be, in the best possible way to motivate people to become more active in demanding change or making changes
> - share climate news and thoughts on social media
> - cut my own emissions
> 
> Nice to know you are in our team,
> 
> Franziska
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