Marine heatwaves

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, S Darmaraki… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and
extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The …

Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area

S Strydom, K Murray, S Wilson, B Huntley… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs),
has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date, metrics of thermal stress …

Marine heatwave events near Weizhou Island, Beibu Gulf in 2020 and their possible relations to coral bleaching

Y Feng, BJ Bethel, C Dong, H Zhao, Y Yao… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are events of anomalously high sea surface temperatures lasting
for five days or more and have recently been linked to widespread environmental stress on …

Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures

NR Evensen, M Fine, G Perna… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is resulting in unprecedented levels of coral mortality due to mass bleaching
events and, more recently, marine heatwaves, where rapid increases in seawater …

Coral bleaching response is unaltered following acclimatization to reefs with distinct environmental conditions

KL Barott, AS Huffmyer, JM Davidson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Urgent action is needed to prevent the demise of coral reefs as the climate crisis leads to an
increasingly warmer and more acidic ocean. Propagating climate change–resistant corals to …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in rocky intertidal community structure during a marine heatwave in the northern Gulf of Alaska

B Weitzman, B Konar, K Iken, H Coletti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves are global phenomena that can have major impacts on the structure and
function of coastal ecosystems. By mid-2014, the Pacific Marine Heatwave (PMH) was …

Large-scale interventions may delay decline of the Great Barrier Reef

SA Condie, KRN Anthony… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
On the iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the cumulative impacts of tropical cyclones, marine
heatwaves and regular outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) have …

Marine heatwaves and cold-spells in global coral reef zones

Y Yao, C Wang - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
Persistent ocean temperature extremes, known as marine heatwaves (MHWs) and marine
cold-spells (MCSs), can be devastating for warm-water coral reefs. However, the difference …