The costs and benefits of environmental memory for reef-building corals coping with recurring marine heatwaves

KT Brown, KL Barott - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Marine heatwaves are occurring more frequently as climate change intensifies, resulting in
global mass coral bleaching events several times per decade. Despite the time between …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …

Learning from the past is not enough to survive present and future bleaching threshold temperatures

S Keshavmurthy, TR Chen, PJ Liu, JT Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past decade, the frequency of mass coral bleaching events has increased due to
seawater temperature anomalies persisting for longer periods. Coral survival from …

Within-population variability in coral heat tolerance indicates climate adaptation potential

A Humanes, L Lachs… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Coral reefs are facing unprecedented mass bleaching and mortality events due to marine
heatwaves and climate change. To avoid extirpation, corals must adapt. Individual variation …

The potential for temperature acclimatisation of reef corals in the face of climate change

BE Brown, AR Cossins - Coral reefs: an ecosystem in transition, 2011 - Springer
Coral bleaching has taken centre-stage in the debate over the likely biological effects of
global environmental change. Central to any judgements on this issue is the ability of corals …

The effects of marine heatwaves on acute heat tolerance in corals

MR Marzonie, LK Bay, DG Bourne… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scleractinian coral populations are increasingly exposed to conditions above their upper
thermal limits due to marine heatwaves, contributing to global declines of coral reef …

No apparent trade-offs associated with heat tolerance in a reef-building coral

L Lachs, A Humanes, DR Pygas, JC Bythell… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
As marine species adapt to climate change, their heat tolerance will likely be under strong
selection. Yet trade-offs between heat tolerance and other life history traits could …

Acclimatization of massive reef-building corals to consecutive heatwaves

TM DeCarlo, HB Harrison, L Gajdzik… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reef-building corals typically live close to the upper limits of their thermal tolerance and
even small increases in summer water temperatures can lead to bleaching and mortality …

Coral heat tolerance under variable temperatures: Effects of different variability regimes and past environmental history vs. current exposure

V Schoepf, H Sanderson… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to high‐frequency temperature variability often but not always enhances coral
heat tolerance, raising the question of whether this depends on the type of variability regime …

Shifting baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves

CB Wall, CA Ricci, AD Wen, BE Ledbetter… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change is altering coral reef ecosystems. Notably, marine heatwaves are
producing widespread coral bleaching events that are increasing in frequency, with …