Microbiome of Oculina arbuscula subjected to temperature stress
Coral susceptibility to climate change is dependent on many physiological and environmental factors, and shallow, tropical corals are often thought to be the most susceptible due to them living near the upper limit of their thermotolerance. We studied whether physiological response of the temperate coral Oculina arbuscula to thermal stress (1.4 degrees C above average summer water temperatures) depended on the depth from which the corals were collected (less than nine meters or greater than 20 meters deep).