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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 735-745Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.013
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- ARC Discovery Project [DP160100271]
- ARC Centre of Excellence [CE0561435]
- US National Science Foundation [IOS-1258065, OCE-1635695]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1258065] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Coral reefs have entered an era of 'ecological crisis' as climate change drives catastrophic reef loss worldwide. Coral growth and stress susceptibility are regulated by their endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (genus Symbiodinium). The phylogenetic diversity of Symbiodinium frequently corresponds to patterns of coral health and survival, but knowledge of functional diversity is ultimately necessary to reconcile broader ecological success over space and time. We explore here functional traits underpinning the complex biology of Symbiodinium that spans free-living algae to coral endosymbionts. In doing so we propose a mechanistic framework integrating the primary traits of resource acquisition and utilisation as a means to explain Symbiodinium functional diversity and to resolve the role of Symbiodinium in driving the stability of coral reefs under an uncertain future.
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