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Northward range expansion of the invasive coral (Tubastraea tagusensis) in the ...
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; Davis, Marcus; Carneiro, Pedro Bastos de MacêdoInvasive species are recognized as a major threat to marine biodiversity. The scleractinian coral Tubastraea tagusensis has been expanding its range into the southwest Atlantic Ocean, causing negative impacts on marine ecosystems. In 2016, the species was recorded on a shipwreck located 40 km off the Brazilian coast of Ceará State (latitude 2°30′ S), at densities ranging from 16 to 872 colonies × m−2 . This is ...
Thermal stress and tropical reefs: mass coral bleaching in a stable temperature...
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; Teixeira, Carlos Eduardo Peres; Ferreira, Sarah Maria Cavalcante; Gurgel, Anne Larisse Alves RebouçasThis study reports on the deepest records (~ 24 m depth) of coral bleaching in a naturally temperature-stable environment (> 26 °C with an intra-annual variability of ~ 2 °C), which was recorded during a mass bleaching event in the locally dominant, massive scleractinian coral Siderastrea stellata in equatorial waters of Brazil (SW Atlantic). An inter-annual analysis (2002– 2017) indicated that this bleaching e...
Take care of the old shipwrecks before sinking new ships
Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira; Gurgel, Anne Larisse Alves Rebouças; Davis, Marcus; Paiva, Sandra Vieira; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaIn their Letter “Brazil policy invites marine invasive species”, Miranda et al. [1] criticizes the Brazilian Federal Government plan to sink 1200 articial structures including ships. We endorse the view that such activities pose a high risk of spreading invasive species which include, among others, sun corals (Tubastraea spp.) [2, 3] along the Brazilian coastline. Moreover, in 2020 when diving on the Brazilian ...