Climate Change and the Marianas: What Does the Present Tell Us About What the Future Holds?

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Climate Change and the Marianas: What does the present tell us about what the future holds? DR. LAURIE RAYMUNDO UNIVERSITY OF GUAM MARINE LABORATORY 2013: the first serious bleaching event in the Marianas in recent history: 85% of coral taxa Fadian Pt, Guam Saipan Lagoon, CNMI Bleaching in Guam shallow forereefs, August-December 2013. Reynolds (M.Sc. Thesis 2016) Reynolds et al. 2014 2014: 2nd bleaching event, June-July, affecting shallow staghorn Acropora in Guam and Saipan 53% loss of staghorn Acropora in 2013-14 events. Raymundo et al. (In review) 2015: ENSO-related extreme low tides; reef flats exposed for prolonged periods during dry season 2016: A bleaching-and-disease double whammy 8.12.16 8.8.167.6.16 TUMON BAY MARINE PRESERVE Future prognosis and management options? Guam Bleaching Response Plan formalized & implemented ▶ Identification of resilient pop’ls & favorable sites ▶ Active mitigation to facilitate recovery of staghorns Are there resilient communities in favorable sites? West Agana Sewage Treatment Plant November 2014 September 2016 Mitigation: 1. Establishing reproductive biology & genetic analysis of Guam’s staghorns Spawning Max. Avg. Egg Range of egg % Fecund Total Species Timing Size (µm) size (µm) at Fragments Number of (2015) spawning month (Total ) Fragments Acropora acuminata April 580 391-782 19.4% 144 Acropora aspera September 627.8 207-1150 53.4% 236 588.7 (695.1 Acropora pulchra May without Tumon) 46-1058 41.4% 382 Acropora muricata May 474.3 230-828 28.0% 254 Acropora cf. muricata "B" May 468.1 253-713 71.4% 126 Val Lapacek, M.Sc. thesis 2. Culture of species of concern, using both sexual & asexual propagation Niki Burns, M.Sc. Thesis Four species of staghorns: ~800 fragments in Outplanting of tiles Acropora pulchra, A. ocean nursery from containing sexual aspera, A. muricata, A. surviving resilient recruits after nursery intermedia. More spp. to populations. Pruning to grow-out be added create next generation Si Yu’us Maase Funding & support from NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program Guam Coral Reef Initiative National Parks Service Underwater World, Inc. SECORE International, Inc. Photo credits: P. Houk, V. Lapacek, D. Burdick, N. Burns.

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