Observed and projected impacts of climate change on marine fisheries, aquaculture, coastal tourism, and human health: an update

LV Weatherdon, AK Magnan, AD Rogers… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
states that climate change and ocean acidification are altering the oceans at a rate that is …

Coral recruitment: patterns and processes determining the dynamics of coral populations

PJ Edmunds - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coral recruitment describes the addition of new individuals to populations, and it is one of
the most fundamental demographic processes contributing to population size. As many coral …

Growing coral larger and faster: micro-colony-fusion as a strategy for accelerating coral cover

ZH Forsman, CA Page, RJ Toonen, D Vaughan - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Fusion is an important life history strategy for clonal organisms to increase access to shared
resources, to compete for space, and to recover from disturbance. For reef building corals …

Recruitment drives spatial variation in recovery rates of resilient coral reefs

SJ Holbrook, TC Adam, PJ Edmunds, RJ Schmitt… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical reefs often undergo acute disturbances that result in landscape-scale loss of coral.
Due to increasing threats to coral reefs from climate change and anthropogenic …

Linking demographic processes of juvenile corals to benthic recovery trajectories in two common reef habitats

C Doropoulos, S Ward, G Roff, M González-Rivero… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Tropical reefs are dynamic ecosystems that host diverse coral assemblages with different life-
history strategies. Here, we quantified how juvenile (< 50 mm) coral demographics …

Large-area imaging reveals biologically driven non-random spatial patterns of corals at a remote reef

CB Edwards, Y Eynaud, GJ Williams, NE Pedersen… - Coral Reefs, 2017 - Springer
For sessile organisms such as reef-building corals, differences in the degree of dispersion of
individuals across a landscape may result from important differences in life-history strategies …

Successive bleaching events cause mass coral mortality in Guam, Micronesia

LJ Raymundo, D Burdick, WC Hoot, RM Miller, V Brown… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
The reefs of Guam, a high island in the Western Pacific, were impacted by an
unprecedented succession of extreme environmental events beginning in 2013. Elevated …

Quantifying multiscale habitat structural complexity: a cost-effective framework for underwater 3D modelling

R Ferrari, D McKinnon, H He, RN Smith, P Corke… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Coral reef habitat structural complexity influences key ecological processes, ecosystem
biodiversity, and resilience. Measuring structural complexity underwater is not trivial and …

Successive marine heatwaves cause disproportionate coral bleaching during a fast phase transition from El Niño to La Niña

SJ Dalton, AG Carroll, E Sampayo, G Roff… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves that result in coral bleaching events have
increased over recent decades and led to catastrophic losses of reef-building corals in many …

A functional approach to the structural complexity of coral assemblages based on colony morphological features

V Denis, L Ribas-Deulofeu, N Sturaro, CY Kuo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Colony morphological features is among the best predictor of the scleractinian coral's
function in reef ecosystems. However, morphological traits are categorical and to convert …