[HTML][HTML] Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

DJ Hughes, R Alderdice, C Cooney, M Kühl… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming and local eutrophication simultaneously lower oxygen (O2) saturation and
increase biological O2 demands to cause deoxygenation. Tropical shallow waters, and their …

Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter are central to coral reef ecosystem function and resilience

CE Nelson, L Wegley Kelly… - Annual Review of Marine …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
To thrive in nutrient-poor waters, coral reefs must retain and recycle materials efficiently. This
review centers microbial processes in facilitating the persistence and stability of coral reefs …

Water motion, marine macroalgal physiology, and production

CL Hurd - Journal of Phycology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Water motion is a key determinant of marine macroalgal production, influencing directly or
indirectly physiological rates and community structure. Our understanding of how marine …

Morphological plasticity in scleractinian corals

PA Todd - Biological reviews, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
When describing coral shape and form the term phenotypic plasticity, ie environment‐
induced changes in morphology, is often used synonymously with intraspecific variation …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

[HTML][HTML] Oxygen: the universal currency on coral reefs

HR Nelson, AH Altieri - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Coral reefs are suffering unprecedented declines worldwide. Most studies focus on stressors
such as rising temperatures, nutrient pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification as …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of sediments from dredging on corals

R Jones, P Bessell-Browne, R Fisher… - Marine Pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
There is a need to develop water quality thresholds for dredging near coral reefs that can
relate physical pressures to biological responses and define exposure conditions above …

Unseen players shape benthic competition on coral reefs

KL Barott, FL Rohwer - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Recent work has shown that hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic matter (OM) from algae
disrupts the function of the coral holobiont and promotes the invasion of opportunistic …

Intertidal mussel microclimates: predicting the body temperature of a sessile invertebrate

BST Helmuth - Ecological Monographs, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
To elucidate the determinants of intertidal invertebrate body temperatures during aerial
exposure, I developed deterministic models using the environmental inputs of solar …

The effect of reef morphology on coral recruitment at multiple spatial scales

RR Carlson, LB Crowder, RE Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide, making it increasingly important to promote coral
recruitment in new or degraded habitat. Coral reef morphology—the structural form of reef …