A multi-trait systems approach reveals a response cascade to bleaching in corals

SG Gardner, JB Raina, MR Nitschke, DA Nielsen… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Climate change causes the breakdown of the symbiotic relationships between
reef-building corals and their photosynthetic symbionts (genus Symbiodinium), with thermal …

Antioxidant responses to heat and light stress differ with habitat in a common reef coral

TD Hawkins, T Krueger, SP Wilkinson, PL Fisher… - Coral Reefs, 2015 - Springer
Coral bleaching—the stress-induced collapse of the coral–Symbiodinium symbiosis—is a
significant driver of worldwide coral reef degradation. Yet, not all corals are equally …

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 …

Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals

N Rädecker, C Pogoreutz, HM Gegner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recurrent mass bleaching events are pushing coral reefs worldwide to the brink of
ecological collapse. While the symptoms and consequences of this breakdown of the coral …

Thermal stress and resilience of corals in a climate-changing world

R Carballo-Bolaños, D Soto, CA Chen - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coral reef ecosystems are under the direct threat of increasing atmospheric greenhouse
gases, which increase seawater temperatures in the oceans and lead to bleaching events …

Characterizing environmental stress responses of aposymbiotic Astrangia poculata to divergent thermal challenges

DM Wuitchik, A Almanzar, BE Benson… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change threatens corals globally and both high and low
temperatures are known to induce coral bleaching. However, coral stress responses across …

The Meta-Organism Response of the Environmental Generalist Pocillopora damicornis Exposed to Differential Accumulation of Heat Stress

JL Bergman, W Leggat, TD Ainsworth - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coral bleaching events in the marine environment are now occurring globally, and the
frequency and severity of these events are increasing. Critically, these events can cause the …

A road map for the development of the bleached coral phenotype

K Gómez-Campo, S Enríquez… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mass coral bleaching compromises the long-term persistence of coral reefs, yet our current
understanding of the different cellular mechanisms leading to the development of a …

Relative stability of the Pocillopora acuta microbiome throughout a thermal stress event

HE Epstein, G Torda, MJH van Oppen - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Rapid climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is pushing corals to
and past their physiological limits, while their microbiome is being pressed towards …

Broad scale proteomic analysis of heat-destabilised symbiosis in the hard coral Acropora millepora

K Petrou, BL Nunn, MP Padula, DJ Miller… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Coral reefs across the globe are threatened by warming oceans. The last few years have
seen the worst mass coral bleaching events recorded, with more than one quarter of all reefs …