Experimental Ground Truthing of the Effects of ‘Coral Microbiome Transplantation’ to Enhance Thermal Stress Tolerance

Erik Francesco Ferrara1, Merlin Weichler2, Marlene Wall2, Giada Meraldi1, Lalita Putchim3, Supasit Boonphienphol4, Maren Ziegler1 and Anna Roik5,6, (1)Justus Liebig University Giessen, Department of Animal Ecology& Systematics, Giessen, Germany, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center (Eastern Gulf of Thailand), Bang Pakong, Thailand, (4)Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Phuket Marine Biological Center, Phuket, Thailand, (5)Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany, (6)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, OceanQuest, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia