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Mora, Camilo; Rollo, Audrey; Tittensor, Derek P.

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“…Unfortunately, their fate is shared by most of world's reefs [6]. In a dark, yet realistic final consideration, as in other fields of biodiversity research [45], global change is reducing our chances to achieve a proper understanding of the ecological significance of the intimate relationships between corals and symbiotic hydrozoans faster than we can cope with. Although we hope that this study will pave the road for future field investigations, we also fear that it may be just another testament of something we lost long before we got to know.…”

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Corals hosting symbiotic hydrozoans are less susceptible to predation and disease

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CitationMontano S, Fattorini S, Parravicini V, Berumen ML, Galli P, et al. (2017) No changes can be made after publication. Q1A funding statement has been added to your paper; please check that this is correct. SQ1Your supplementary material will be published online alongside your article and on rs.figshare.com exactly as the file(s) are provided. Therefore, please could you either confirm that your supplementary material is correct, or -if you have any changes to make to these files -email these along with your proof corrections to the journal inbox. Your ESM files are listed here for your convenience: SM1.csv SQ2Your paper has exceeded the free page extent and will attract page charges. Here we show how a largely overseen association such as that between hydrozoans and scleractinian corals could be possibly associated with a reduction in coral susceptibility to ever-increasing predator and disease outbreaks. We examined 2450 scleractinian colonies (from both Maldivian and the Saudi Arabian coral reefs) searching for non-random patterns in the occurrence of hydrozoans on corals showing signs of different health conditions (i.e. bleaching, algal overgrowth, corallivory and different coral diseases). We show that, after accounting for geographical, ecological and co-evolutionary factors, signs of disease and corallivory are significantly lower in coral colonies hosting hydrozoans than in hydrozoan-free ones. This finding has important implications for our understanding of the ecology of coral reefs, and for their conservation in the current scenario of global change, because it suggests that symbiotic hydrozoans may play an active role in protecting their scleractinian hosts from stresses induced by warming water temperatures.

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“…Outcomes of recent human activity on parasite populations can be seen in the translocation of drug-resistant phenotypes, changes in host range expansion and host switching, and the loss of biodiversity (both host and pathogen) and, therefore, refugia as influenced by global warming. Recent work by Dirzo et al (2014) examined the cost to biodiversity imposed by the explosion of extinction events in the past 500 yr, wherein an estimated 11,000-58,000 species are lost annually and attributed substantially to human activity (Scheffers et al, 2012;Mora et al, 2013). Ironically, it was proposed (Seddon et al, 2014) that the global redistribution and reintroduction of animals should help remedy the loss of diversity and defaunation brought on by such extinction.…”

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“…Our changing relationships to the environments in which we live, and our capacities for dispersal and interaction resulting from population growth and new technologies, are driving homogenization on global scales (Ricciardi, 2007;Hoberg, 2010) and, in particular, the distribution and dissemination of an array of foodborne parasites (Robertson et al, 2014). Further, they are directly influencing the emergence of diseases as a component of larger integrated crises for perturbation, pervasive extinction, and loss of diversity across the biosphere (Brooks and Hoberg, 2013;Mora and Zapata, 2013;Dirzo et al, 2014). These mechanisms lead to increasing homogenization and, we assume, gene flow within some assemblages.…”

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Anthropogenics: Human Influence on Global and Genetic Homogenization of Parasite Populations

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Rosenthal³

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Journal of Parasitology

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“…More than one billion people live in extreme poverty and hunger, and ecosystems are losing species at rates only seen in previous mass extinction events (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2006, Hails 2008, Barnosky et al 2011, Mora et al 2013a. Unfortunately, overcoming these problems remains difficult, and if anything, progress appears to be leaning in undesirable directions (Butchart et al 2010, Kollodge 2011.…”

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Revisiting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Population Growth: a Fundamental but Fading Issue in Modern Scientific, Public, and Political Circles

Comment on “Can We Name Earth’s Species Before They Go Extinct?”

Cited by 35 publications

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Corals hosting symbiotic hydrozoans are less susceptible to predation and disease

Corals hosting symbiotic hydrozoans are less susceptible to predation and disease

Anthropogenics: Human Influence on Global and Genetic Homogenization of Parasite Populations

Revisiting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects of Population Growth: a Fundamental but Fading Issue in Modern Scientific, Public, and Political Circles

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