The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

Coral reproduction on the world’s southernmost reef at Lord Howe Island, Australia

(2015) AH Baird et al.   Aquatic Biology

Euphyllia paradivisa, a successful mesophotic coral in the northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea

(2015) Gal Eyal et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral growth patterns of Montastraea cavernosa and Porites astreoides in the Florida Keys: The importance of thermal stress and inimical waters

(2015) Derek P. Manzello et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

The future of evolutionary diversity in reef corals

(2015) D. Huang et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Limited scope for latitudinal extension of reef corals

(2015) P. R. Muir et al.   SCIENCE

Diverse Staghorn Coral Fauna on the Mesophotic Reefs of North-East Australia

(2015) Paul Muir et al.   PLoS One

Spectral Diversity and Regulation of Coral Fluorescence in a Mesophotic Reef Habitat in the Red Sea

(2015) Gal Eyal et al.   PLoS One

The Last Two Centuries of Lead Pollution in the Southern Gulf of Mexico Recorded in the Annual Bands of the Scleractinian Coral Orbicella faveolata

(2014) Guillermo Horta-Puga et al.   BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Multi-species spawning synchrony within scleractinian coral assemblages in the Red Sea

(2014) J. Bouwmeester et al.   CORAL REEFS

Growth rates, densities, and distribution of Lophelia pertusa on artificial structures in the Gulf of Mexico

(2014) Elizabeth A. Larcom et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Mechanical vulnerability explains size-dependent mortality of reef corals

(2014) Joshua S. Madin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variation in elemental stoichiometry and RNA:DNA in four phyla of benthic organisms from coral reefs

(2014) Catherine E. Lovelock et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the scleractinia: an integral projection model approach

(2014) Peter J. Edmunds et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

A Phylogeny of the Family Poritidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) Based on Molecular and Morphological Analyses

(2014) Yuko F. Kitano et al.   PLoS One

Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genusSclerophyllia(Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its phylogenetic relationships

(2014) Roberto Arrigoni et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Pachyseris inattesa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): a new reef coral species from the Red Sea and its phylogenetic relationships

(2014) Tullia Isotta Terraneo et al.   ZooKeys

The “Fungia patella group” (Scleractinia, Fungiidae) revisited with a description of the mini mushroom coral Cycloseris boschmai sp. n.

(2014) Bert Hoeksema   ZooKeys

Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo-Pacific generaMerulina,GoniastreaandScapophyllia(Scleractinia, Merulinidae)

(2014) Danwei Huang et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

With eyes wide open: a revision of species within and closely related to thePocillopora damicornisspecies complex (Scleractinia; Pocilloporidae) using morphology and genetics

(2014) Sebastian Schmidt-Roach et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Extension of the known distribution and depth range of the scleractinian coral Psammocora stellata: first record from a Taiwanese mesophotic reef

(2014) Vianney Denis et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Age structure of massive Porites lutea corals at Luhuitou fringing reef (northern South China Sea) indicates recovery following severe anthropogenic disturbance

(2013) M. X. Zhao et al.   CORAL REEFS

Geographic ranges of reef corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the Indo-Pacific

(2013) Terry P. Hughes et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones

(2013) Brigitte Sommer et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A skeletal Sr/Ca record preserved inDipsastraea(Favia)speciosaand implications for coral Sr/Ca thermometry in mid-latitude regions

(2013) Inah Seo et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Sr/Ca Proxy Sea-Surface Temperature Reconstructions from Modern and HoloceneMontastraea faveolataSpecimens from the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, U.S.A.

(2013) Jennifer A. Flannery et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Density banding pattern of the south western Atlantic coral Mussismilia braziliensis

(2013) Ruy K.P. Kikuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Regional calibration of coral-based climate reconstructions from Palau, West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP)

(2013) Michael C. Osborne et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution

(2013) S. A. Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Favia camranensis sp. n. (Scleractinia: Faviidae), a new coral species from Southern Vietnam

(2013) Yu. Ya. Latypov   Russian Journal of Marine Biology

Biodiversity data should be published, cited, and peer reviewed

(2013) Mark J. Costello et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Echinophyllia tarae sp. n. (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia), a new reef coral species from the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia

(2013) Francesca Benzoni   ZooKeys

Pocillopora aliciae: a new species of scleractinian coral (Scleractinia, Pocilloporidae) from subtropical Eastern Australia

(2013) SEBASTIAN SCHMIDT-ROACH et al.   ZOOTAXA

Call to protect all coral reefs

(2013) Tom C. L. Bridge et al.   Nature Climate Change

Sexual systems in scleractinian corals: an unusual pattern in the reef-building species Diploastrea heliopora

(2012) J. R. Guest et al.   CORAL REEFS

Evaluating life-history strategies of reef corals from species traits

(2012) Emily S. Darling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The impact of seawater temperature on coral growth parameters of the colonial coral Cladocora caespitosa (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) in the eastern Adriatic Sea

(2012) Petar Kružić et al.   FACIES

Interactive effects of ocean acidification and temperature on two scleractinian corals from Moorea, French Polynesia

(2012) Peter J. Edmunds et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reef coral reproduction in the equatorial eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panamá, and the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). VII. Siderastreidae, Psammocora stellata and Psammocora profundacella

(2012) P. W. Glynn et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Skeletal extension and calcification of reef-building corals in the central Indian Ocean

(2012) K.M. Morgan et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Sensitivity of Calcification to Thermal Stress Varies among Genera of Massive Reef-Building Corals

(2012) Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

(2012) ANN F. BUDD et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals

(2011) Jarosław Stolarski et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Morphology, severity, and distribution of growth anomalies in the coral, Montipora capitata, at Wai‘ōpae, Hawai‘i

(2011) J. H. R. Burns et al.   CORAL REEFS

Is the response of coral calcification to seawater acidification related to nutrient loading?

(2011) Anne Chauvin et al.   CORAL REEFS

Metabolic plasticity of the corals Porites lutea and Diploastrea heliopora exposed to large amplitude internal waves

(2011) C. Roder et al.   CORAL REEFS

Daytime spawning of Porites rus on the coral reefs of Chumbe Island in Zanzibar, Western Indian Ocean (WIO)

(2011) O. Bronstein et al.   CORAL REEFS

Diversity of Scleractinia and Octocorallia in the mesophotic zone of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

(2011) T. C. L. Bridge et al.   CORAL REEFS

Mesophotic coral ecosystems on the walls of Coral Sea atolls

(2011) P. Bongaerts et al.   CORAL REEFS

Rapid poleward range expansion of tropical reef corals in response to rising sea surface temperatures

(2011) Hiroya Yamano et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Inferred level of calcification decreases along an increasing temperature gradient in a Mediterranean endemic coral

(2011) Stefano Goffredo et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of acidified seawater on coral calcification and symbiotic algae on the massive coral Porites australiensis

(2011) Akira Iguchi et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

The role of deep reefs in shallow reef recovery: an assessment of vertical connectivity in a brooding coral from west and east Australia

(2011) MADELEINE J. H. Van OPPEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

GeoSymbio: a hybrid, cloud-based web application of global geospatial bioinformatics and ecoinformatics for Symbiodinium-host symbioses

(2011) ERIK C. FRANKLIN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Variation in Symbiodinium ITS2 Sequence Assemblages among Coral Colonies

(2011) Michael Stat et al.   PLoS One

Declining Coral Skeletal Extension for Forereef Colonies of Siderastrea siderea on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Southern Belize

(2011) Karl D. Castillo et al.   PLoS One

A Connection between Colony Biomass and Death in Caribbean Reef-Building Corals

(2011) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   PLoS One

Monophyletic origin ofCaryophyllia(Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species

(2011) Marcelo V. Kitahara et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

A revision of the genusDeltocyathusMilne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) from New Caledonia, with the description of a new species

(2011) Marcelo V. Kitahara et al.   ZOOSYSTEMA

Differential effects of copper on three species of scleractinian corals and their algal symbionts (Symbiodinium spp.)

(2010) G.K. Bielmyer et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Mesophotic communities of the insular shelf at Tutuila, American Samoa

(2010) A. Y. Bare et al.   CORAL REEFS

Growth characteristics of the reef-building coral Porites astreoides under different environmental conditions in the Western Atlantic

(2010) E. M. Elizalde-Rendón et al.   CORAL REEFS

Macroecological relationships between coral species’ traits and disease potential

(2010) M. Díaz et al.   CORAL REEFS

Mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago

(2010) J. Rooney et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral growth with thermal stress and ocean acidification: lessons from the eastern tropical Pacific

(2010) D. P. Manzello   CORAL REEFS

Employing a highly fragmented, weedy coral species in reef restoration

(2010) L. Shaish et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genusSymbiodinium

(2010) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Heating rate and symbiont productivity are key factors determining thermal stress in the reef-building coral Acropora formosa

(2010) R. Middlebrook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The effects of substratum type on the growth, mortality, and photophysiology of juvenile corals in St. John, US Virgin Islands

(2010) Daniel H. Green et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1

(2010) Xavier Pochon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Specificity and stability in high latitude eastern Pacific coral-algal symbioses

(2010) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Seasonality of coral reproduction in the Dampier Archipelago, northern Western Australia

(2010) A. H. Baird et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Novel algal symbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) diversity in reef corals of Western Australia

(2010) RN Silverstein et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The Relative Significance of Host–Habitat, Depth, and Geography on the Ecology, Endemism, and Speciation of Coral Endosymbionts in the Genus Symbiodinium

(2010) J. Christine Finney et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Coral host transcriptomic states are correlated withSymbiodiniumgenotypes

(2010) M. K. DeSALVO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Protein expression and genetic structure of the coralPorites lobatain an environmentally extreme Samoan back reef: does host genotype limit phenotypic plasticity?

(2010) D. J. BARSHIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic Divergence across Habitats in the Widespread Coral Seriatopora hystrix and Its Associated Symbiodinium

(2010) Pim Bongaerts et al.   PLoS One

Host-symbiont recombination versus natural selection in the response of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance

(2010) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ocean Warming Slows Coral Growth in the Central Red Sea

(2010) N. E. Cantin et al.   SCIENCE

The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)

(2010) FRANCESCA BENZONI et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals

(2009) Andrew H. Baird et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Reef waters stimulate substratum exploration in planulae from brooding Caribbean corals

(2009) D. F. Gleason et al.   CORAL REEFS

Synchronous reproduction of corals in the Red Sea

(2009) M. H. Hanafy et al.   CORAL REEFS

Broadcast spawning patterns of Favia species on the inshore reefs of Thailand

(2009) N. Kongjandtre et al.   CORAL REEFS

Population dynamics of the mushroom coral Heliofungia actiniformis in the Spermonde Archipelago, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2009) L. Knittweis et al.   CORAL REEFS

Structure and growth rates of the high-latitude coral: Plesiastrea versipora

(2009) S. N. Burgess et al.   CORAL REEFS

The effect of species and colony size on the bleaching response of reef-building corals in the Florida Keys during the 2005 mass bleaching event

(2009) M. E. Brandt   CORAL REEFS

Symbiodinium associations with diseased and healthy scleractinian corals

(2009) A. M. S. Correa et al.   CORAL REEFS

Decline in skeletal growth of the coral Porites lutea from the Andaman Sea, South Thailand between 1984 and 2005

(2009) J. T. I. Tanzil et al.   CORAL REEFS

Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold

(2009) JESSICA E. CARILLI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching

(2009) W.K. Fitt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

SYMBIODINIUM(DINOPHYTA) DIVERSITY AND STABILITY IN AQUARIUM CORALS

(2009) Robin T. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Skeletal linear extension rates of the foliose scleractinian coralMerulina ampliata(Ellis & Solander, 1786) in a turbid environment

(2009) Angela Dikou   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Specificity in communities of Symbiodinium in corals from Johnston Atoll

(2009) M Stat et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Transcriptomic responses to heat stress and bleaching in the elkhorn coral Acropora palmata

(2009) MK DeSalvo et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Scleractinian coral population size structures and growth rates indicate coral resilience on the fringing reefs of North Jamaica

(2009) M.J.C. Crabbe   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Topography and spatial arrangement of reef-building corals on the fringing reefs of North Jamaica may influence their response to disturbance from bleaching

(2009) M.J.C. Crabbe   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Reef Endemism, Host Specificity and Temporal Stability in Populations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates from Two Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Corals

(2009) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic homogenization of woodland plant communities over 70 years

(2009) S. A. Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Outbreak and persistence of opportunistic symbiotic dinoflagellates during the 2005 Caribbean mass coral 'bleaching' event

(2009) T. C. LaJeunesse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Community involvement in management for maintaining coral reef resilience and biodiversity in southern Caribbean marine protected areas

(2008) Carolina Camargo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Interspecies and spatial diversity in the symbiotic zooxanthellae density in corals from northern South China Sea and its relationship to coral reef bleaching

(2008) Shu Li et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Ocean acidification and calcifying reef organisms: a mesocosm investigation

(2008) P. L. Jokiel et al.   CORAL REEFS

Symbiont acquisition strategy drives host–symbiont associations in the southern Great Barrier Reef

(2008) M. Stat et al.   CORAL REEFS

Distribution and photobiology of Symbiodinium types in different light environments for three colour morphs of the coral Madracis pharensis: is there more to it than total irradiance?

(2008) P. R. Frade et al.   CORAL REEFS

Survival dynamics of scleractinian coral larvae and implications for dispersal

(2008) E. M. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building corals to thermal stress

(2008) R. Middlebrook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COLD TOLERANCE AND TEMPERATE BIOGEOGRAPHY IN A WESTERN ATLANTICSYMBIODINIUM(DINOPHYTA) LINEAGE1

(2008) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

BICARBONATE STIMULATION OF CALCIFICATION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN TWO HERMATYPIC CORALS

(2008) Lydie Herfort et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Latitudinal symbiont zonation in Stylophora pistillata from southeast Africa

(2008) Angus H. H. Macdonald et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Environmental versus intrinsic determination of colony symmetry in the coral Pocillopora verrucosa

(2008) T Mass et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Interpreting sea surface temperature from strontium/calcium ratios inMontastreacorals: Link with growth rate and implications for proxy reconstructions

(2008) Casey Saenger et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

(2008) Hironobu Fukami et al.   PLoS One

Bleaching susceptibility and mortality of corals are determined by fine-scale differences in symbiont type

(2008) E. M. Sampayo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts

(2008) K. E. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental versus Genetic Influences on Growth Rates of the Corals Pocillopora eydouxi and Porites lobata (Anthozoa: Scleractinia)1

(2007) L. W. Smith et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE