Management approaches to conserve Australia's marine ecosystem under climate change

LK Bay, J Gilmour, B Muir, PE Hardisty - Science, 2023 - science.org
Australia's coastal marine ecosystems have a deep cultural significance to Indigenous
Australians, include multiple World Heritage sites, and support the nation's rapidly growing …

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 …

Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation

CGB Grupstra, M Gómez-Corrales, JE Fifer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

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 …

Cellular adaptations of the scleractinian coral Madracis pharensis to chronic oil pollution in a Mediterranean shipwreck

A Nardi, V Resaikos, M Papatheodoulou… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Chemical pollution in marine ecosystems is a factor of stress interacting in multiple and
complex ways with other major causes of deterioration, such as warming seas due to climate …

Loss of coral thermotolerance following year-long in situ nursery propagation with a consecutively high summer heat-load

R Alderdice, CR Voolstra, CIN Lendo, C Boote… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Exposure to more frequent ocean warming events is driving the loss of coral reef cover as
the window of recovery between episodes of bleaching reduces. Coral propagation via in …

Unexpectedly high coral heat tolerance at thermal refugia

L Lachs, A Humanes, PJ Mumby, SD Donner, J Bythell… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Marine heatwaves and mass bleaching have led to global declines in coral reefs. Corals can
adapt, yet, to what extent local variations in thermal stress regimes influence heat tolerance …

Quantifying the thermal tolerance traits of individual corals reveals widespread variation across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin, MS Naugle, G Lecellier… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The capacity of reef-building corals to adapt to global warming depends upon standing
heritable variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. While heat tolerance is …

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

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass, E Kruse, R McClintock… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme heat stress events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent …

Trade-offs in a reef-building coral after six years of thermal acclimation

A Roik, M Wall, M Dobelmann, S Nietzer, D Brefeld… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Evidence is growing that reef-building corals have the capacity to acclimate to new and
challenging thermal conditions by increasing their thermal resistance. This raises hopes for …