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What Can Regeneration Processes Tell Us About Coral Disease?

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Coral Health and Disease

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Life history processes of scleractinian corals play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of coral reefs. Factors such as recruitment, survival, and longevity of the corals determine the reef characteristics. These factors depend on environmental parameters as well as on physiological intrinsic traits of the primary reef builders, the scleractinian corals. Despite intensive studies, we still lack a good understanding of the mechanisms of stress response and recovery of corals at the organism and community levels (Buddemeier and Smith 1999). Buddemeier and Smith (1999) proposed that “in any environment there exists a “hyperspace” where interacting variables create a multidimensional space of optimal or acceptable conditions in terms of organism response”. As long as all or most of the variables are within the central core of this hyperspace, the organisms may display resilience. An organism or community may remain viable or seem to thrive even in response to environmental change that reduces its volume of optimal hyperspace (Buddemeier and Smith 1999). Further change, however slight, may then push them over the threshold causing a disintegration of adaptive responses. If we perceive a coral as a unit where resources are limited and partitioned to a multitude of life functions (see Fig 10.1), we can envision the mechanism in which the “hyperspace” may act upon it. Corals that suffer injury to tissue, suffer damage to reproduction, growth and the ability to withstand stress, and by definition exist in a shrunken hyperspace. These corals will also ultimately be more susceptible to disease.

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    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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Kramarsky-Winter, E. (2004). What Can Regeneration Processes Tell Us About Coral Disease?. In: Rosenberg, E., Loya, Y. (eds) Coral Health and Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06414-6_10

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