… which shade the surface and curtail further heating. Recent studies suggest that ocean …
which will gradually modify reef carbonate accumulation and probably community structure, …

… While coral host biochemistry (eg heat shock proteins and antioxidants) … of corals and thus
are a nugget of hope for coral reefs in an era of climate change, it is unclear how many coral …

… activities from the accumulation of greenhouse gases… Coral Reef Watch program (http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov).
The analysis of the SST data is presented in the form of degree heating …

… coral reefs over the past 50 yrs, in part, due to rising ocean temperatures, has led to predictions
of a global-scale collapse in reefs … term as well as heat flux through the reef bed are likely …

… DHW is an index that shows how much heat stress has accumulated in an area over the
past 12 weeks, by adding up any difference between the SST and the MMM of 1 C or higher …

… with less time to recover following even relatively mild heat stress events. Together, our
results suggest that although the ultimate survival of coral reefs is dependent on the immediate …

… Acute thermal stress was quantified as the total amount of Degree Heating Weeks (DHW,
[31]) experienced in a particular year (Figure 2a). DHWs are a measure of accumulated …

… At minimum, we recommend researchers report the amount of accumulated heat stress at
the time of sampling (DHW) compared to the overall event (ie, at what point in the timeline of …

… In summary, in spite of the accumulating evidence supporting a role of biological membranes
in shaping the heat tolerance of coral symbionts (Tchernov et al. 2004; Díaz-Almeyda et al. …

Coral reefs are fascinating ecosystems because of … (reef-building) scleractinian corals and
encrusting coralline algae, as well as Halimeda green algae and some other calcifying reef …