Stress-resistant corals may not acclimatize to ocean warming but maintain heat tolerance under cooler temperatures

V Schoepf, SA Carrion, SM Pfeifer, M Naugle… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Naturally heat-resistant coral populations hold significant potential for facilitating coral reef
survival under rapid climate change. However, it remains poorly understood whether they …

Acclimatization of massive reef-building corals to consecutive heatwaves

TM DeCarlo, HB Harrison, L Gajdzik… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reef-building corals typically live close to the upper limits of their thermal tolerance and
even small increases in summer water temperatures can lead to bleaching and mortality …

Within-population variability in coral heat tolerance indicates climate adaptation potential

A Humanes, L Lachs… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Coral reefs are facing unprecedented mass bleaching and mortality events due to marine
heatwaves and climate change. To avoid extirpation, corals must adapt. Individual variation …

Do fluctuating temperature environments elevate coral thermal tolerance?

TA Oliver, SR Palumbi - Coral reefs, 2011 - Springer
In reef corals, much research has focused on the capacity of corals to acclimatize and/or
adapt to different thermal environments, but the majority of work has focused on distinctions …

Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change

SR Palumbi, DJ Barshis, N Traylor-Knowles, RA Bay - Science, 2014 - science.org
Reef corals are highly sensitive to heat, yet populations resistant to climate change have
recently been identified. To determine the mechanisms of temperature tolerance, we …

Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment

V Schoepf, M Stat, JL Falter, MT McCulloch - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Naturally extreme temperature environments can provide important insights into the
processes underlying coral thermal tolerance. We determined the bleaching resistance of …

Predictive models for the selection of thermally tolerant corals based on offspring survival

KM Quigley, MJH van Oppen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Finding coral reefs resilient to climate warming is challenging given the large spatial scale of
reef ecosystems. Methods are needed to predict the location of corals with heritable …

Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves

DC Claar, S Starko, KL Tietjen, HE Epstein… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prospects for coral persistence through increasingly frequent and extended heatwaves
seem bleak. Coral recovery from bleaching is only known to occur after temperatures return …

No apparent trade-offs associated with heat tolerance in a reef-building coral

L Lachs, A Humanes, DR Pygas, JC Bythell… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
As marine species adapt to climate change, their heat tolerance will likely be under strong
selection. Yet trade-offs between heat tolerance and other life history traits could …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …