The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

The critical importance of Old World fruit bats for healthy ecosystems and economies

SA Aziz, KR McConkey, K Tanalgo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite extensive documentation of the ecological and economic importance of Old World
fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) and the many threats they face from humans, negative …

Land use impacts on coral reef health: A ridge-to-reef perspective

RR Carlson, SA Foo, GP Asner - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over 60% of the world's reefs experience damage from local activities such as overfishing,
coastal development, and watershed pollution. Land-based sources of pollution are a critical …

Ocean acidification refugia in variable environments

L Kapsenberg, T Cyronak - Global Change Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change refugia in the terrestrial biosphere are areas where species are protected
from global environmental change and arise from natural heterogeneity in landscapes and …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic benefits of conserving land-sea ecosystems

RR Carlson, LJ Evans, SA Foo, BW Grady, J Li… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs interact in tropical regions throughout the world.
These ecosystems exhibit strong synergies, as the health of each ecosystem supports the …

The role of natural variability in shaping the response of coral reef organisms to climate change

EB Rivest, S Comeau, CE Cornwall - Current Climate Change Reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We investigate whether regimes of greater daily variability in
temperature or pH result in greater tolerance to ocean warming and acidification in key reef …

Mangrove lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef support coral populations persisting under extreme environmental conditions

EF Camp, J Edmondson, A Doheny, J Rumney… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Global degradation of coral reefs has increased the urgency of identifying stress-tolerant
coral populations, to enhance understanding of the biology driving stress tolerance, as well …

[HTML][HTML] Lateral carbon fluxes and CO2 evasion from a subtropical mangrove-seagrass-coral continuum

A Akhand, K Watanabe, A Chanda, T Tokoro… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangrove, seagrass, and coral habitats often lie adjacent to each other in the tropics and
subtropics. Lateral carbon fluxes and their consecutive effects on CO 2 dynamics and air …

Reef-building corals thrive within hot-acidified and deoxygenated waters

EF Camp, MR Nitschke, R Rodolfo-Metalpa… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Coral reefs are deteriorating under climate change as oceans continue to warm and acidify
and thermal anomalies grow in frequency and intensity. In vitro experiments are widely used …