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 …

The coral bleaching automated stress system (CBASS): a low‐cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits

NR Evensen, KE Parker, TA Oliver… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming is increasingly affecting marine ecosystems across the globe. Reef‐building
corals are particularly affected by warming, with mass bleaching events increasing in …

Assessing acute thermal assays as a rapid screening tool for coral restoration

CN Klepac, CG Petrik, E Karabelas, J Owens… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Escalating environmental threats to coral reefs coincides with global advancements in coral
restoration programs. To improve long-term efficacy, practitioners must consider …

Multiomics data integration, limitations, and prospects to reveal the metabolic activity of the coral holobiont

A Williams - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Since their radiation in the Middle Triassic period∼ 240 million years ago, stony corals have
survived past climate fluctuations and five mass extinctions. Their long-term survival …

Regulation of cultured coral endosymbiont photophysiology by alternate heat stress protocols

N Bartels, EF Camp, NJ Dilernia, DJ Suggett - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
Unlocking how coral endosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) regulate the susceptibility of corals
to thermal stress-induced bleaching has been the focus of experimental heat stress studies …

Intra‐colony spatial variance of oxyregulation and hypoxic thresholds for key Acropora coral species

NJ Dilernia, S Woodcock, EF Camp… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen (O2) availability is essential for healthy coral reef functioning, yet how continued
loss of dissolved O2 via ocean deoxygenation impacts performance of reef building corals …

The effects of marine heatwaves on acute heat tolerance in corals

MR Marzonie, LK Bay, DG Bourne… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scleractinian coral populations are increasingly exposed to conditions above their upper
thermal limits due to marine heatwaves, contributing to global declines of coral reef …

Environmental, host, and symbiont drivers of heat tolerance in a species complex of reef-building corals

MS Naugle, H Denis, VJL Mocellin, PW Laffy, I Popovic… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Reef-building coral populations are under unprecedented threat from climate warming. Yet,
variation in coral heat tolerance exists whereby some colonies can cope with higher sea …

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 …

A Multi-trait Approach To Evaluate Success In Coral Restoration Efforts On The Great Barrier Reef

CI Núñez Lendo - 2024 - opus.lib.uts.edu.au
Accelerating reef health declines from local and global stressors have catalysed widespread
interest in coral reef restoration practices as an active management tool to boost coral reef …