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 …

Successive marine heatwaves cause disproportionate coral bleaching during a fast phase transition from El Niño to La Niña

SJ Dalton, AG Carroll, E Sampayo, G Roff… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves that result in coral bleaching events have
increased over recent decades and led to catastrophic losses of reef-building corals in many …

Increasing thermal stress for tropical coral reefs: 1871–2017

JM Lough, KD Anderson, TP Hughes - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical corals live close to their upper thermal limit making them vulnerable to unusually
warm summer sea temperatures. The resulting thermal stress can lead to breakdown of the …

Ocean currents magnify upwelling and deliver nutritional subsidies to reef-building corals during El Niño heatwaves

MD Fox, R Guillaume-Castel, CB Edwards, J Glanz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Marine heatwaves are triggering coral bleaching events and devastating coral populations
globally, highlighting the need to identify processes promoting coral survival. Here, we show …

Repeat bleaching of a central Pacific coral reef over the past six decades (1960–2016)

HC Barkley, AL Cohen, NR Mollica… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
The oceans are warming and coral reefs are bleaching with increased frequency and
severity, fueling concerns for their survival through this century. Yet in the central equatorial …

Emergent increase in coral thermal tolerance reduces mass bleaching under climate change

L Lachs, SD Donner, PJ Mumby, JC Bythell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recurrent mass bleaching events threaten the future of coral reefs. To persist under climate
change, corals will need to endure progressively more intense and frequent marine …

Back-to-back coral bleaching events on isolated atolls in the Coral Sea

HB Harrison, M Álvarez-Noriega, AH Baird, SF Heron… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Severe bleaching events caused by marine heat waves over the past four decades have
now affected almost every coral reef ecosystem in the world. These recurring events have …

[HTML][HTML] Internal tides can provide thermal refugia that will buffer some coral reefs from future global warming

CD Storlazzi, OM Cheriton, R Van Hooidonk, Z Zhao… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Observations show ocean temperatures are rising due to climate change, resulting in a
fivefold increase in the incidence of regional-scale coral bleaching events since the 1980s; …

Mesophotic coral bleaching associated with changes in thermocline depth

C Diaz, NL Foster, MJ Attrill, A Bolton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As global temperatures continue to rise, shallow coral reef bleaching has become more
intense and widespread. Mesophotic coral ecosystems reside in deeper (30–150 m), cooler …

[HTML][HTML] High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching

A Safaie, NJ Silbiger, TR McClanahan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Coral bleaching is the detrimental expulsion of algal symbionts from their cnidarian hosts,
and predominantly occurs when corals are exposed to thermal stress. The incidence and …