TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Disease in Reef-Dwelling Forminifera: Implications for Coastal Sedimentation
AU - Hallock, Pamela
AU - Talge, Helen K.
AU - Cockey, Elizabeth M.
AU - Muller, Robert G.
AU - Muller, Pamela Hallock
PY - 1995/7/1
Y1 - 1995/7/1
N2 - A new disease is afflicting Amphistegina spp., foraminifera whose shells produce up to 90% of the sand-sized sediments in nearshore zones of some Indo-Pacific islands. Disease symptoms have been prevalent in A. gibbosa in the Florida Keys since summer 1991, and were seen in both Caribbean and Indo-Pacific species in 1992-93. Although cause of the disease is undetermined, field and laboratory data indicate that solar irradiance may be a factor. Whatever the cause, implications for coastal sedimentation will be serious if Indo-Pacific populations ever sustain long-term damage of the magnitude seen in the Florida Keys in 1992-93.
AB - A new disease is afflicting Amphistegina spp., foraminifera whose shells produce up to 90% of the sand-sized sediments in nearshore zones of some Indo-Pacific islands. Disease symptoms have been prevalent in A. gibbosa in the Florida Keys since summer 1991, and were seen in both Caribbean and Indo-Pacific species in 1992-93. Although cause of the disease is undetermined, field and laboratory data indicate that solar irradiance may be a factor. Whatever the cause, implications for coastal sedimentation will be serious if Indo-Pacific populations ever sustain long-term damage of the magnitude seen in the Florida Keys in 1992-93.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/975
UR - https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.25.3.280
U2 - 10.2113/gsjfr.25.3.280
DO - 10.2113/gsjfr.25.3.280
M3 - Article
VL - 25
JO - Journal of Foraminiferal Research
JF - Journal of Foraminiferal Research
ER -