Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Cross-scale habitat structure driven by coral species composition on tropical reefs

(2017) Laura E. Richardson et al.   Scientific Reports

Biofouling on buoyant marine plastics: An experimental study into the effect of size on surface longevity

(2016) Francesca M.C. Fazey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dangerous hitchhikers? Evidence for potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. on microplastic particles

(2016) Inga V. Kirstein et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Reserves as tools for alleviating impacts of marine disease

(2016) Joleah B. Lamb et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Protected areas mitigate diseases of reef-building corals by reducing damage from fishing

(2015) Joleah B. Lamb et al.   ECOLOGY

Marine microplastic-associated biofilms – a review

(2015) Sonja Oberbeckmann et al.   Environmental Chemistry

Bacterial Community Profiling of Plastic Litter in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

(2015) Caroline A. De Tender et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence

(2015) Jeffrey Maynard et al.   Nature Climate Change

Towards a better understanding of white syndromes and their causes on Indo-Pacific coral reefs

(2014) D. G. Bourne et al.   CORAL REEFS

Vulnerability of Coral Reef Fisheries to a Loss of Structural Complexity

(2014) Alice Rogers et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phage-bacteria network analysis and its implication for the understanding of coral disease

(2014) Nitzan Soffer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris

(2013) Erik R. Zettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Algae as Reservoirs for Coral Pathogens

(2013) Michael J. Sweet et al.   PLoS One

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

(2013) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Biogeochemical conditions determine virulence of black band disease in corals

(2012) Martin S Glas et al.   ISME Journal

Macroalgal Extracts Induce Bacterial Assemblage Shifts and Sublethal Tissue Stress in Caribbean Corals

(2012) Kathleen M. Morrow et al.   PLoS One