Turbid coral reefs: past, present and future—a review

A Zweifler, M O'leary, K Morgan, NK Browne - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Increasing evidence suggests that coral reefs exposed to elevated turbidity may be more
resilient to climate change impacts and serve as an important conservation hotspot …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world's warmest reefs

EG Smith, KM Hazzouri, JY Choi, P Delaney… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coral populations in the world's warmest reefs, the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG), represent an
ideal model system to understand the evolutionary response of coral populations to past and …

The evolution of coral reef under changing climate: a scientometric review

CS Thirukanthan, MN Azra, F Lananan, G Sara'… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Coral reefs are vital ecosystems with high biodiversity and ecological
services for coastal communities. Climate change is accelerating, with detrimental …

Marine heatwaves impair the thermal refugia potential of marginal reefs in the northern South China Sea

S Mo, T Chen, Z Chen, W Zhang, S Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Frequent marine heatwaves (MHWs), concurrent with climate warming, threaten global low-
latitude, pristine coral reefs, leading to growing interest in identifying marginal coral reefs …

Symbiont shuffling across environmental gradients aligns with changes in carbon uptake and translocation in the reef-building coral Pocillopora acuta

M Ros, DJ Suggett, J Edmondson, T Haydon… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Symbiosis between reef-building corals and unicellular algae (Symbiodiniaceae) fuels the
growth and productivity of corals reefs. Capacity for Symbiodiniaceae to fix inorganic carbon …

Light limitation and depth-variable sedimentation drives vertical reef compression on turbid coral reefs

KM Morgan, MA Moynihan, N Sanwlani… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Turbid coral reefs experience high suspended sediment loads and low-light conditions that
vertically compress the maximum depth of reef growth. Although vertical reef compression is …

Impacts of a changing environment on marginal coral reefs in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic

MO Soares, S Rossi, AR Gurgel, CC Lucas… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The peculiar shallow-water reefs of the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic Ocean have thrived in
conditions considered suboptimal (eg, moderate turbidity, higher level of nutrients, and …

Antiscalants used in the desalination industry impact the physiology of the coral Montipora capricornis

JA Marques, A Gafni, O Adler, O Levy, E Bar-Zeev - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Many coral reefs are found in arid and semi-arid regions that often face severe water scarcity
and depend on seawater desalination for freshwater supply. Alongside freshwater …

Contingency planning for coral reefs in the Anthropocene; The potential of reef safe havens

EF Camp - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Reducing the global reliance on fossil fuels is essential to ensure the long-term survival of
coral reefs, but until this happens, alternative tools are required to safeguard their future …