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Disturbance Driven Colony Fragmentation as a Driver of a Coral Disease Outbreak

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, February 2013
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Title
Disturbance Driven Colony Fragmentation as a Driver of a Coral Disease Outbreak
Published in
PLOS ONE, February 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0057164
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Authors

Marilyn E. Brandt, Tyler B. Smith, Adrienne M. S. Correa, Rebecca Vega-Thurber

Abstract

In September of 2010, Brewer's Bay reef, located in St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands), was simultaneously affected by abnormally high temperatures and the passage of a hurricane that resulted in the mass bleaching and fragmentation of its coral community. An outbreak of a rapid tissue loss disease among coral colonies was associated with these two disturbances. Gross lesion signs and lesion progression rates indicated that the disease was most similar to the Caribbean coral disease white plague type 1. Experiments indicated that the disease was transmissible through direct contact between colonies, and five-meter radial transects showed a clustered spatial distribution of disease, with diseased colonies being concentrated within the first meter of other diseased colonies. Disease prevalence and the extent to which colonies were bleached were both significantly higher on unattached colony fragments than on attached colonies, and disease occurred primarily on fragments found in direct contact with sediment. In contrast to other recent studies, disease presence was not related to the extent of bleaching on colonies. The results of this study suggest that colony fragmentation and contact with sediment played primary roles in the initial appearance of disease, but that the disease was capable of spreading among colonies, which suggests secondary transmission is possible through some other, unidentified mechanism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 119 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 18%
Student > Master 22 18%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 4%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 23 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 43%
Environmental Science 27 22%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Unspecified 2 2%
Other 4 3%
Unknown 27 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 April 2022.
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#5,622,528
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#68,231
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#46,220
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#1,480
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