Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Ecosystem management frequently aims to manage resilience yet measuring resilience has
proven difficult. Here, we quantify the ecological resilience of the largest reef in the …

Coral reefs have emerged as one of the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate variation
and change. While the contribution of a warming climate to the loss of live coral cover has …

Following a series of mass-bleaching events that have seriously degraded coral reefs,
notably the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, a common narrative is now dominating the …

Resilience is usually defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to absorb disturbance without
shifting to an alternative state and losing function and services [1–3]. The concept therefore …

Coral reef ecosystems are among the first to fundamentally change in structure due to
climate change, which leads to questioning of whether decades of knowledge regarding reef …

Managing coral reefs for resilience to climate change is a popular concept but has been
difficult to implement because the empirical scientific evidence has either not been …

Risk analyses indicate that more than 90% of the world's reefs will be threatened by climate
change and local anthropogenic impacts by the year 2030 under" business-as-usual" …

Recent epizootics have removed important functional species from Caribbean coral reefs
and left communities vulnerable to alternative attractors. Global warming will impact reefs …

Many coral reefs worldwide have undergone phase shifts to alternate, degraded
assemblages because of the combined effects of overfishing, declining water quality, and …