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December 2018 - December 2022
January 2016 - June 2017
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Coral reefs are undergoing unprecedented degradation due to rising ocean temperatures, acidification, overfishing, and coastal pollution. Despite conservation efforts, including marine protected areas and sustainable fishing practices, the magnitude of these challenges calls for innovative approaches to repair and restore coral reefs. In this study...
The global decline of coral reefs calls for new strategies to rapidly restock coral populations and maintain ecosystem functions and services. Low recruitment success on degraded reefs hampers coral sexual propagation and contributes to limited genetic diversity and reef resilience. Here, we introduce a living bacteria-powered reef ink (Brink) for...
Organismal communities associated with coral reefs, particularly invertebrates and microbes, play crucial roles in ecosystem maintenance and coral health. Here, we characterized the organismal composition of a healthy, non-urbanized reef (Site A) and a degraded, urbanized reef (Site B) in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea to assess its impact on cor...
Playbacks of ambient sound from healthy shallow coral reefs, known as acoustic enrichment (AE), can attract fish larvae and potentially coral larvae to degraded or artificial reefs. Large-scale studies face power supply challenges and require less intensive in-person surveys of recruited larvae (≤500 μm) and fish. Here, we present a preliminary ass...
Coral nurseries and associated techniques are the most common and widespread reef restoration methods worldwide. Due to the rapid decline of coral reefs, coral nurseries need to be eco-friendlier and adapted for effective upscaling to support large restoration projects. We suggest new design and fabrication processes associated with coral gardening...
Reef fish and their cryptobenthic larvae are a fundamental aspect of a productive and healthy coral reef ecosystem. Playbacks of ambient sound recorded from healthy shallow coral reefs, known as “acoustic enrichment” (AE), have been demonstrated to attract fish larvae and potentially coral larvae to degraded or artificial reefs. Initial AE studies...
Quantifying coral reef biodiversity is challenging for cryptofauna and organisms in early life stages. We demonstrate the utility of eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for comprehensively evaluating invertebrate communities on complex 3D structures for reef reformation, and the role these structures play in provisioning habitat for organisms. 3D design a...
The rapid decline of vulnerable coral reefs has increased the necessity of exploring interdisciplinary methods for reef restoration. Examining how to upgrade these tools may uncover options to better support or increase biodiversity of coral reefs. As many of the issues facing reef restoration today deal with the scalability and effectiveness of re...
Outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns sea stars (CoTS; Acanthaster species complex) cause substantial coral loss; hence, there is considerable interest in developing prevention and control strategies. We characterized the microbiome of captive CoTS and assessed whether dysbiosis was evident in sea stars during a disease event. Most tissue types...
