Publications by authors named "David J Juszkiewicz"
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- Coral reefs worldwide are facing threats from ocean warming, making it crucial to identify coral varieties that can withstand higher temperatures for conservation purposes.
- The study examines three genetically distinct but morphologically similar coral lineages (L1, L2, L3) across different reef conditions: classic reefs with typical environments and extreme reefs with higher temperatures and light challenges.
- Results indicate that each lineage has adapted differently to their environments, with L1 being a classic reef specialist, L3 as an extreme reef specialist, and L2 acting as a generalist, highlighting the varying strategies corals use to survive under stress.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the fastest growing biomonitoring tool fuelled by two key features: time efficiency and sensitivity. Technological advancements allow rapid biodiversity detection at both species and community levels with increasing accuracy. Concurrently, there has been a global demand to standardise eDNA methods, but this is only possible with an in-depth overview of the technological advancements and a discussion of the pros and cons of available methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScleractinian corals are a diverse group of ecologically important yet highly threatened marine invertebrates, which can be challenging to identify to the species level. An influx of molecular studies has transformed scleractinian systematics, highlighting that cryptic species may be more common than previously understood. In this study, we test the hypothesis that Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck, 1816), a species currently considered to occur throughout the Indo-Pacific in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate waters, is a single species.
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