Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs

S Hackerott, HA Martell, JM Eirin-Lopez - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a
dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …

Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - IPCC AR6 WGII, 2022 - epic.awi.de
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming

CE Cornwall, S Comeau, NA Kornder… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ocean warming and acidification threaten the future growth of coral reefs. This is because
the calcifying coral reef taxa that construct the calcium carbonate frameworks and cement …

Coral reef resilience to thermal stress in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

M Romero‐Torres, A Acosta… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by thermal stress caused by climate change.
Especially devastating periods of coral loss frequently occur during El Niño‐Southern …

Nutrient-supplying ocean currents modulate coral bleaching susceptibility

TM DeCarlo, L Gajdzik, J Ellis, DJ Coker… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
With predictions that mass coral bleaching will occur annually within this century,
conservation efforts must focus their limited resources based on an accurate understanding …

The costs and benefits of environmental memory for reef-building corals coping with recurring marine heatwaves

KT Brown, KL Barott - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Marine heatwaves are occurring more frequently as climate change intensifies, resulting in
global mass coral bleaching events several times per decade. Despite the time between …

Successive extreme climatic events lead to immediate, large‐scale, and diverse responses from fish in the Arctic

B Husson, S Lind, M Fossheim… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The warming trend of the Arctic is punctuated by several record‐breaking warm years with
very low sea ice concentrations. The nature and reversibility of marine ecosystem responses …

The Bouraké semi-enclosed lagoon (New Caledonia)–a natural laboratory to study the lifelong adaptation of a coral reef ecosystem to extreme environmental …

F Maggioni, M Pujo-Pay, J Aucan, C Cerrano… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
According to current experimental evidence, coral reefs could disappear within the century if
CO2 emissions remain unabated. However, recent discoveries of diverse and high cover …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamic and atmospheric drivers create distinct thermal environments within a coral reef atoll

CM Grimaldi, RJ Lowe, JA Benthuysen, MVW Cuttler… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Within coral reefs, different thermal environments can be found at locations separated by
less than 100 s of meters and can generate fine-scale patterns of thermal stress and …