Oxygen: the universal currency on coral reefs

HR Nelson, AH Altieri - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
mass mortality events associated with low oxygen on coral … pose an increasingly significant
threat to tropical coral reefs. … driving the formation of dead zones and address directions for …

Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

DJ Hughes, R Alderdice, C Cooney, M Kühl… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical shallow waters, and their coral reefs, are particularly … Similarly, coral reef dead zones
have been reported from … it is unlikely that direct mortality of coral reef fish will occur due to …

Impacts of a changing environment on marginal coral reefs in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic

MO Soares, S Rossi, AR Gurgel, CC Lucas… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
bleaching mass mortality. However, the recent and intense heatwaves of 2019 and 2020
caused higher mortality rates in several key foundation corals … the SW Atlantic reefs are not long-…

Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish

A Genin, L Levy, G Sharon… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… Warming tropical and subtropical reefs may face an … on coral reef fishes (27), did not even
consider mass mortalities as a … and sustainable functioning of fish communities in coral reefs. …

Resilience of tropical ecosystems to ocean deoxygenation

AH Altieri, MD Johnson, SD Swaminathan… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
… and the number of dead zones is increasing exponentially … evidence that tropical coastal
ecosystems, including coral reefs, … Where mortality in tropical habitats has been documented, co…

Dead zones: oxygen depletion in coastal ecosystems

AH Altieri, RJ Diaz - World seas: An environmental evaluation, 2019 - Elsevier
mortality and emigration of fish, crustaceans, and other animals. The resulting areas that appear
largely lifeless are known as “dead zones… hypoxic ecosystems in the tropics are yet to be …

Multi-decadal changes in structural complexity following mass coral mortality on a Caribbean reef

G Roff, J Joseph, PJ Mumby - Biogeosciences, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
… Despite extensive mortality following the mass coral bleaching event of 1998, the structural
complexity of frameworks remained largely unchanged between 1998 (rugosity index, R, of …

Localized hypoxia may have caused coral reef mortality at the Flower Garden Banks

AK Kealoha, SM Doyle, KEF Shamberger, JB Sylvan… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
… for which environmental conditions are conducive to tropical coral reef growth (Kleypas et
al. … associated with coral bleaching. Despite the proximity of the FGB to the dead zone on the …

Sustained mass coral bleaching (2016–2017) in Brazilian turbid-zone reefs: taxonomic, cross-shelf and habitat-related trends

CD Teixeira, RLL Leitão, FV Ribeiro, FC Moraes… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
… , turbid-zone reefs may exhibit high bleaching tolerance due … summarize previous bleaching
events in the tropical Western … one of them with associated mass coral mortality (Kelmo and …

Microbial community dynamics provide evidence for hypoxia during a coral reef mortality event

SM Doyle, MJ Self, J Hayes… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In July 2016, a severe coral reef invertebrate mortality event occurred approximately 200
km … ∼82% of corals in a 0.06-km 2 area died. Based on surveys of dead corals and other …