The effects of sea surface temperature anomalies on oceanic coral reef systems in the southwestern tropical Atlantic

BP Ferreira, M Costa, MS Coxey, ALB Gaspar… - Coral reefs, 2013 - Springer
accumulation of warm waters is related to fluctuations in the trade winds. Therefore, it seems
that reefs located in the northernmost distribution of coral reefs in … the southernmost reefs of …

High-resolution in situ thermal metrics coupled with acute heat stress experiments reveal differential coral bleaching susceptibility

CN Klepac, DJ Barshis - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
… Here, the magnitude of thermal anomalies at a reef locale depends on whether accumulated
heat stress is modeled using NOAA’s CRW or in situ temperature, and which data and …

Towards developing a mechanistic understanding of coral reef resilience to thermal stress across multiple scales

RC Roche, GJ Williams, JR Turner - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide is associated with several alterations in global
environmental conditions which are expected to challenge global coral reef … degree heating

Sea-surface temperature and thermal stress in the Coral Triangle over the past two decades

EL Peñaflor, WJ Skirving, AE Strong, SF Heron… - Coral Reefs, 2009 - Springer
… -Coral Reef Watch (NOAA-CRW) satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) and Degree
Heating … DHW, on the other hand, computes the cumulative thermal stress by accumulating

10th anniversary review: a changing climate for coral reefs

JM Lough - Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
accumulate sufficient calcium carbonate to form a coral reef structure. The latter are often
more isolated and close or beyond the limits of coral reef … resulting in more heat being trapped …

Emergent increase in coral thermal tolerance reduces mass bleaching under climate change

L Lachs, SD Donner, PJ Mumby, JC Bythell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… of accumulated heat stress measured as degree heating … help coral reefs escape the impacts
of extreme ocean heat events, … have lowered the susceptibility of corals to heat stress in the …

Fine-tuning heat stress algorithms to optimise global predictions of mass coral bleaching

L Lachs, JC Bythell, HK East, AJ Edwards, PJ Mumby… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems that provide habitat to over a million marine …
Since the models presented in this study are based solely on large-scale accumulated heat

Conservation planning for coral reefs accounting for climate warming disturbances

RA Magris, SF Heron, RL Pressey - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… bleaching events in the period 2010–2099, we first calculated Degree Heating Months [47] …
Our acute stress metric accumulated the function values above to calculate the total amount …

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
accumulation or weakening) of reef-building corals to consecutive heatwaves and its implications
for the trajectory and resilience of coral reefs… to the ongoing accumulation of heat in the …

Cold induces acute stress but heat is ultimately more deleterious for the reef-building coral Acropora yongei

MS Roth, R Goericke, DD Deheyn - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
… events contribute to coral reef decline by causing widespread coral bleaching and mortality.
… Here, we propose that photodamage accumulated in the corals during our heat experiment …