Coral disease is a major threat to the resilience of coral reefs; thus, understanding linkages
between disease outbreaks and disturbances predicted to increase with climate change is …

Coral disease prevalence has significantly increased under a changing climate, impacting
coral community structure and functionality. The impacts and ecology of coral diseases are …

Background Declining water quality coupled with the effects of climate change are rapidly
increasing coral diseases on reefs worldwide, although links between coral diseases and …

Coral diseases are one of the most important causes of coral reef decline worldwide.
Although they are well investigated in some areas of the Caribbean and the Great Barrier …

While links between heat stress and coral bleaching are clear and predictive tools for
bleaching risk are well advanced, links between heat stress and outbreaks of coral diseases …

Coral reefs are experiencing a dramatic loss of hard coral abundance and associated
habitat structure from a myriad of local and global factors. Here, utilizing U–Th radiometric …

In the summer/fall of 2005, extensive coral bleaching on reefs in the US Virgin Islands
(USVI) was associated with sea water temperatures exceeding 30° C. Almost all coral …

Recent outbreaks of coral bleaching and disease have contributed to substantial declines in
the abundance of reef‐building coral. Significant attention has been paid to both …

Bleaching events and disease epizootics have increased during the past decades,
suggesting a positive link between these 2 causes in producing coral mortality. However …

In the northeast Caribbean, doldrum-like conditions combined with elevated water
temperatures in the summer/fall 2005 created the most severe coral bleaching event ever …