Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments

AG Grottoli, RJ Toonen, R van Woesik… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching is the single largest global threat to coral reefs worldwide. Integrating the
diverse body of work on coral bleaching is critical to understanding and combating this …

Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment

V Schoepf, M Stat, JL Falter, MT McCulloch - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Naturally extreme temperature environments can provide important insights into the
processes underlying coral thermal tolerance. We determined the bleaching resistance of …

Coral responses to anthropogenic stress in the twenty-first century: an ecophysiological perspective

MJ Sweet, BE Brown - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
The number of ecophysiological studies involving reef corals has increased markedly over
the last 20 years, driven primarily by the concern over the potential effects of anthropogenic …

The coral hospital

AB Mayfield, S Tsai, C Lin - Biopreservation and Biobanking, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Herein we propose an ambitious confrontation of the current coral reef crisis through the
establishment of a “Coral Hospital.” In an analogous manner to a human hospital,“sick” …

Coral heat tolerance under variable temperatures: Effects of different variability regimes and past environmental history vs. current exposure

V Schoepf, H Sanderson… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to high‐frequency temperature variability often but not always enhances coral
heat tolerance, raising the question of whether this depends on the type of variability regime …

Variability in thermal stress thresholds of corals across depths

P Tavakoli-Kolour, F Sinniger, M Morita… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mesophotic habitats are potential refugia for corals in the context of climate change. The
seawater temperature in a mesophotic habitat is generally lower than in a shallow habitat …

Organic ultraviolet filter mixture promotes bleaching of reef corals upon the threat of elevated seawater temperature

T He, MMP Tsui, AB Mayfield, PJ Liu, TH Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global reef degradation is a critical environmental health issue that has triggered intensive
research on ocean warming, but the implications of emerging contaminants in coral habitats …

The proteomic response of the reef coral Pocillopora acuta to experimentally elevated temperatures

AB Mayfield, YJ Chen, CY Lu, CS Chen - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Although most reef-building corals live near the upper threshold of their thermotolerance,
some scleractinians are resilient to temperature increases. For instance, Pocillopora acuta …

Eutrophication and hypoxia in tropical Negombo lagoon, Sri Lanka

HH Hsieh, MH Chuang, YY Shih… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxic events are becoming frequent in some estuaries and coastal waters due to over-
enrichment of anthropogenic nutrients, organic matter, and/or due to restricted water …

Compartment‐specific transcriptomics in a reef‐building coral exposed to elevated temperatures

AB Mayfield, YB Wang, CS Chen, CY Lin… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Although rising ocean temperatures threaten scleractinian corals and the reefs they
construct, certain reef corals can acclimate to elevated temperatures to which they are rarely …