Three decades of heat stress exposure in Caribbean coral reefs: a new regional delineation to enhance conservation

AI Muñiz-Castillo, A Rivera-Sosa, I Chollett… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
reef decline, and the Caribbean has been one of the most … (1985–2017) of heat stress
exposure in the wider Caribbean at … of heat stress, emphasizing an observed increase in heat

Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods

RH McLachlan, JT Price, SL Solomon, AG Grottoli - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
… Second, slightly more than half of all heat-stress exposures were less than 8 d in duration, …
coral reefs (black circles) and coral collection site hotspots (purple circles) for heat-stress

Cloudiness reduces the bleaching response of coral reefs exposed to heat stress

PC Gonzalez‐Espinosa, SD Donner - Global Change Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… on the likelihood of bleaching from thermal stress. We find that among coral reefs exposed
to severe bleaching-level heat stress (Degree Heating Weeks >8Cˑweek), bleaching severity …

The relentless march of mass coral bleaching: a global perspective of changing heat stress

WJ Skirving, SF Heron, BL Marsh, G Liu, JL De La Cour… - Coral reefs, 2019 - Springer
… Notably, during the 2014–2017 global bleaching event, more than three times as many
reefs were exposed to bleaching-level heat stress as in the 1998 global bleaching. …

Historical temperature variability affects coral response to heat stress

J Carilli, SD Donner, AC Hartmann - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… that coral reefs in locations with more frequent warm events … We found that corals historically
exposed to lower thermal … by thermal stress in both 2004 and 2009, indicating that reefs

The past, present, and future of coral heat stress studies

MJ Cziesielski, S Schmidt‐Roach… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… is critical if we want to aid coral reef survival. This review assesses coral heat stress studies
and their … profiles between pre-exposure and control conditions. Not only can preconditioned …

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

TP Hughes, JT Kerry, AH Baird, SR Connolly, A Dietzel… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
… cover for 15 ecologically and taxonomically distinct components of benthic assemblages,
on reefs exposed to a broad spectrum of heat stress. These measurements were conducted at …

Coral reef resilience to thermal stress in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

M Romero‐Torres, A Acosta… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… year live coral cover trend analysis for the ETP coral reefs from … coral reefs of the ETP are
following the global trend of live … and (b) if repeated exposure to ENSO-induced heat stress is …

Standardized short‐term acute heat stress assays resolve historical differences in coral thermotolerance across microhabitat reef sites

CR Voolstra, C Buitrago‐López, G Perna… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… These systems are not practical in many remote locations where coral reefs … in exposed
corals in our experimental heat stresses and a greater incidence of bleaching in exposed corals

Resilience of Central Pacific reefs subject to frequent heat stress and human disturbance

SD Donner, J Carilli - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… greater bleaching despite lower heat stress exposure. The BRI from … heat stress experienced
by Gilbert Islands coral reefs. A model employing only PAR and a metric of past heat stress