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Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a disease of corals that first appeared off the southeast coast of Florida in 2014. It originally was described...

responsible to some extent for the metabolism of their host corals. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease has been associated with the breakdown of host-zooxanthellae...

be safe from human disturbance. In addition, the advent of stony coral tissue loss disease in Florida and the Caribbean is causing local extinctions and...

Fire corals (Millepora) are a genus of colonial marine organisms that exhibit physical characteristics similar to that of coral. The name coral is somewhat...

-ˈtoʊl/) is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim.: 60  Atolls are located...

Deep-water corals belong to the Phylum Cnidaria and are most often stony corals, but also include black and thorny corals and soft corals including the...

a total of 86 public dive sites. Due to an infiltration of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), scuba diving is currently prohibited at the dive sites...

The Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is a branching, stony coral, within the Order Scleractinia. It is characterized by thick, upright branches which...

digestion. However, the term "coral" in coral sand is used loosely in this sense to mean limestone of recent biological origin; corals are not the dominant contributors...

community structure of reefs. Like other organisms, stony corals and soft corals are subject to disease. This may not have been obvious in the past, but...

300 miles long. Florida's coral reefs are currently undergoing an unprecedented stony coral tissue loss disease. The disease covers a large geographic...

species' predicted decline, in part due to its susceptibility to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. Diploria labyrinthiformis hosts Zooxanthella, a symbiotic...

subject to coral diseases such as white plague and black band disease and has been decimated across its range by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease as it is...

most common coral diseases include black band disease, white pox disease, white plague, and white band disease, all of which involve tissue degradation...

Coral rag is a rubbly limestone composed of ancient coral reef material. The term also refers to the building blocks quarried from these strata, which...

coral disappear, due to pollution, climate change, human contact, bleaching, and now the idiopathic disease known as Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)...

together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. Coral belongs to the class Anthozoa in the...

coverage, diseases, and other stressors. This diversion of energy from growth puts the coral's life at risk. Coral bleaching is the result of the loss of vital...

(Greek eu-, true; Greek phyllon, leaf) are known as a family of polyped stony corals under the order Scleractinia. This family consists of multiple genera...

Coral dermatitis is a cutaneous condition caused by injury from the exoskeleton of certain corals.: 430  Skin lesion James, William D.; Berger, Timothy...