A review of coral bleaching specimen collection, preservation, and laboratory processing methods.

ABSTRACT: Under current climate warming predictions, the future of coral reefs is dire. With projected coral reef decline, it is likely that coral specimens for bleaching research will increasingly become a more limited resource in the future. By adopting a holistic approach through increased collaborations, coral bleaching scientists can maximize a specimen's investigative yield, thus reducing the need to remove more coral material from the reef. Yet to expand a specimen's utility for additional analytic methods, information on how corals are collected is essential as many methods are variably sensitive to upstream handling and processing. In an effort to identify common practices for coral collection, sacrifice, preservation, and processing in coral bleaching research, we surveyed the literature f

SUBMITTER: McLachlan RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8272927 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature