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 …

[HTML][HTML] Coastal morphodynamics and climate change: A review of recent advances

LD Wright, BG Thom - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
The shape of the coast and the processes that mold it change together as a complex system.
There is constant feedback among the multiple components of the system, and when climate …

[HTML][HTML] Differential bleaching susceptibility among coral taxa and colony sizes, relative to bleaching severity across Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea …

D Burn, AS Hoey, S Matthews, HB Harrison… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate-induced coral bleaching represents the foremost threat to coral assemblages
globally, however bleaching susceptibility varies among and within coral taxa. We compared …

[HTML][HTML] Protecting Great Barrier Reef resilience through effective management of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks

SA Matthews, DH Williamson, R Beeden, MJ Emslie… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Resilience-based management is essential to protect ecosystems in the Anthropocene.
Unlike large-scale climate threats to Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals, outbreaks of coral …

Symbiodiniaceae diversity varies by host and environment across thermally distinct reefs

MR Marzonie, MR Nitschke, LK Bay… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) influence coral thermal tolerance at both
local and regional scales. In isolation, the effects of host genetics, environment, and thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Local habitat heterogeneity rivals regional differences in coral thermal tolerance

KT Brown, MP Martynek, KL Barott - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Variable temperature regimes that expose corals to sublethal heat stress have been
recognized as a mechanism to increase coral thermal tolerance and lessen coral bleaching …

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 …

Physiological and microbiome adaptation of coral Turbinaria peltata in response to marine heatwaves

X Zhai, YP Zhang, J Zhou, H Li, A Wang… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Against the backdrop of global warming, marine heatwaves are projected to become
increasingly intense and frequent. This trend poses a potential threat to the survival of corals …

Natural thermal stress-hardening of corals through cold temperature pulses in the Thai Andaman Sea

M Wall, T Doering, N Pohl, L Putchim… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Thermal variability can render corals stress resistant through a phenomenon coined as
“stress-hardening induced by environmental priming”. Fluctuations that involve high …

Maximal coral thermal tolerance is found at intermediate diel temperature variability

KT Brown, M Martynek, KL Barott - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
It has become critically important to identify environmental drivers of enhanced thermal
tolerance in coral populations as ocean warming threatens the persistence of coral reef …