Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes, and impact upon structural complexity

AJ Fordyce, TD Ainsworth, SF Heron… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Fine-scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave

KT Brown, G Eyal, SG Dove, KL Barott - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Increasing ocean temperatures threaten coral reefs globally, but corals residing in habitats
that experience high thermal variability are thought to be better adapted to survive climate …

Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics

ASJ Wyatt, JJ Leichter, L Washburn, L Kui… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean
ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely …

Marine heatwaves reveal coral reef zones susceptible to bleaching in the Red Sea

LGC Genevier, T Jamil, DE Raitsos… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As the Earth's temperature continues to rise, coral bleaching events become more frequent.
Some of the most affected reef ecosystems are located in poorly monitored waters, and thus …

Mapped coral mortality and refugia in an archipelago-scale marine heat wave

GP Asner, NR Vaughn, RE Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Corals are a major habitat-building life-form on tropical reefs that support a quarter of all
species in the ocean and provide ecosystem services to millions of people. Marine heat …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid coral decay is associated with marine heatwave mortality events on reefs

WP Leggat, EF Camp, DJ Suggett, SF Heron… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Severe marine heatwaves have recently become a common feature of global ocean
conditions due to a rapidly changing climate [1, 2]. These increasingly severe thermal …

Transformation of coral communities subjected to an unprecedented heatwave is modulated by local disturbance

JK Baum, DC Claar, KL Tietjen, JMT Magel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Corals are imminently threatened by climate change–amplified marine heatwaves.
However, how to conserve coral reefs remains unclear, since those without local …

Size‐dependent mortality of corals during marine heatwave erodes recovery capacity of a coral reef

KE Speare, TC Adam, EM Winslow… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For many long‐lived taxa, such as trees and corals, older, and larger individuals often have
the lowest mortality and highest fecundity. However, climate change‐driven disturbances …

Increasing coral reef resilience through successive marine heatwaves

MD Fox, AL Cohen, RD Rotjan… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming is causing declines of coral reefs globally, raising critical questions about
the potential for corals to adapt. In the central equatorial Pacific, reefs persisting through …

Heat accumulation on coral reefs mitigated by internal waves

ASJ Wyatt, JJ Leichter, LT Toth, T Miyajima… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Coral reefs are among the most species-rich, productive and economically valuable
ecosystems on Earth but increasingly frequent pantropical coral bleaching events are …