Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach

NR Evensen, CR Voolstra, M Fine, G Perna… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Global warming is causing an unprecedented loss of species and habitats worldwide. This is
particularly apparent for tropical coral reefs, with an increasing number of reefs experiencing …

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 …

Beyond peak summer temperatures, branching corals in the Gulf of Aqaba are resilient to thermal stress but sensitive to high light

J Bellworthy, M Fine - Coral Reefs, 2017 - Springer
Despite rapidly rising sea surface temperatures and recurrent positive temperature
anomalies, corals in the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA) rarely experience thermal bleaching …

Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures

NR Evensen, M Fine, G Perna… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is resulting in unprecedented levels of coral mortality due to mass bleaching
events and, more recently, marine heatwaves, where rapid increases in seawater …

Standardized short‐term acute heat stress assays resolve historical differences in coral thermotolerance across microhabitat reef sites

CR Voolstra, C Buitrago‐López, G Perna… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching is one of the main drivers of reef degradation. Most corals bleach and suffer
mortality at just 1–2° C above their maximum monthly mean temperatures, but some species …

Comparative thermal performance of the reef-building coral Orbicella franksi at its latitudinal range limits

NJ Silbiger, G Goodbody-Gringley, JF Bruno… - Marine Biology, 2019 - Springer
Temperature drives biological responses that scale from the cellular to ecosystem levels and
thermal sensitivity will shape organismal functions and population dynamics as the world …

Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods

RH McLachlan, JT Price, SL Solomon, AG Grottoli - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
For over three decades, scientists have conducted heat-stress experiments to predict how
coral will respond to ocean warming due to global climate change. However, there are often …

[HTML][HTML] Physiological and biogeochemical responses of super-corals to thermal stress from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

AG Grottoli, D Tchernov, G Winters - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Mass coral bleaching is increasing in frequency and severity, leading to the loss of coral
abundance and diversity. However, some corals are less susceptible to bleaching than …

When depth is no refuge: cumulative thermal stress increases with depth in Bocas del Toro, Panama

BP Neal, C Condit, G Liu, S dos Santos, M Kahru… - Coral Reefs, 2014 - Springer
Coral reefs are increasingly affected by high-temperature stress events and associated
bleaching. Monitoring and predicting these events have largely utilized sea surface …

Highly conserved thermal performance strategies may limit adaptive potential in corals

M Álvarez-Noriega, I Marrable… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Increasing seawater temperatures are expected to have profound consequences for reef-
building corals' physiology. Understanding how demography changes in response to …