Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales

SB Tebbett, SR Connolly, DR Bellwood - Nature ecology & evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Globally, ecosystems are being reconfigured by a range of intensifying human-induced
stressors. Coral reefs are at the forefront of this environmental transformation, and if we are …

Systematic review of the uncertainty of coral reef futures under climate change

SG Klein, C Roch, CM Duarte - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change impact syntheses, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, consistently assert that limiting global warming to 1.5° C is unlikely to safeguard …

The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts

CM Eakin, HPA Sweatman, RE Brainard - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
2017 was an unprecedented period of successive record-breaking hot years, which
coincided with the most severe, widespread, and longest-lasting global-scale coral …

Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change

TR McClanahan, ES Darling, M Beger… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying locations of refugia from the thermal stresses of climate change for coral reefs
and better managing them is one of the key recommendations for climate change …

Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

ES Darling, TR McClanahan, J Maina… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Without drastic efforts to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate globalized stressors, tropical
coral reefs are in jeopardy. Strategic conservation and management requires identification …

CoralTemp and the coral reef watch coral bleaching heat stress product suite version 3.1

W Skirving, B Marsh, J De La Cour, G Liu, A Harris… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW)
program has been providing resource managers, scientific researchers, and other coral reef …

Shifting the microbiome of a coral holobiont and improving host physiology by inoculation with a potentially beneficial bacterial consortium

Y Zhang, Q Yang, J Ling, L Long, H Huang, J Yin… - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Background The coral microbiome plays a key role in host health by being involved in
energy metabolism, nutrient cycling, and immune system formation. Inoculating coral with …

Increased dominance of heat-tolerant symbionts creates resilient coral reefs in near-term ocean warming

AM Palacio-Castro, TB Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is radically altering coral reef ecosystems, mainly through increasingly
frequent and severe bleaching events. Yet, some reefs have exhibited higher thermal …

Three decades of heat stress exposure in Caribbean coral reefs: a new regional delineation to enhance conservation

AI Muñiz-Castillo, A Rivera-Sosa, I Chollett… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Increasing heat stress due to global climate change is causing coral reef decline, and the
Caribbean has been one of the most vulnerable regions. Here, we assessed three decades …

South Atlantic coral reefs are major global warming refugia and less susceptible to bleaching

M Mies, RB Francini-Filho, C Zilberberg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mass coral bleaching has increased in intensity and frequency and has severely impacted
shallow tropical reefs worldwide. Although extensive investigation has been conducted on …