Experimental Bleaching of a Reef-Building Coral Using a Simplified Recirculating Laboratory Exposure System

Author:

Barron Mace G.1,McGill Cheryl J.1,Courtney Lee A.1,Marcovich Dragoslav T.1

Affiliation:

1. Gulf Ecology Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1 Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, FL 32561, USA

Abstract

Determining stressor-response relationships in reef building corals continues to be a critical research need due to global declines in coral reef ecosystems and projected declines for the future. A simplified recirculating coral exposure system was coupled to a solar simulator to allow laboratory testing of a diversity of species and morphologies of reef building corals under ecologically relevant conditions of temperature and solar radiation. Combinations of lamps and attenuating filters allowed for assignment of solar radiation treatments in experimental bleaching studies. Three bleaching experiments were performed using the reef building coral,Pocillopora damicornis, to assess the reproducibility of system performance and coral responses under control and stress conditions. Experiments showed consistent temperature- and solar radiation dependent-changes in pigment, numbers of symbiotic algae, photosystem II quantum yield, and tissue loss during exposure and recovery. The laboratory exposure system is recommended for use in experimental bleaching studies with reef building corals.

Funder

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Aquatic Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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