Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

Smooth and spiky: the importance of variability in marine climate change ecology

JD Witman, AJ Pershing, JF Bruno - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Greenhouse gas emissions are warming the ocean with profound consequences at all
levels of organization, from organismal rates to ecosystem processes. The proximate driver …

Microclimate predicts kelp forest extinction in the face of direct and indirect marine heatwave effects

S Starko, CJ Neufeld, L Gendall, B Timmer… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves threaten the persistence of kelp forests globally. However, the observed
responses of kelp forests to these events have been highly variable on local scales. Here …

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

SW Davies, MH Gamache, LI Howe-Kerr, NG Kriefall… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Symbioses are restructured by repeated mass coral bleaching

KM Quigley, B Ramsby, P Laffy, J Harris… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Survival of symbiotic reef-building corals under global warming requires rapid acclimation or
adaptation. The impact of accumulated heat stress was compared across 1643 symbiont …

Ocean currents magnify upwelling and deliver nutritional subsidies to reef-building corals during El Niño heatwaves

MD Fox, R Guillaume-Castel, CB Edwards, J Glanz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Marine heatwaves are triggering coral bleaching events and devastating coral populations
globally, highlighting the need to identify processes promoting coral survival. Here, we show …

A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs

M Andrello, ES Darling, A Wenger… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As human activities on the world's oceans intensify, mapping human pressure is essential to
develop appropriate conservation strategies and prioritize investments with limited …

Symbiosis and host responses to heating

TE Hector, KL Hoang, J Li, KC King - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
Virtually all organisms are colonized by microbes. Average temperatures are rising because
of global climate change–accompanied by increases in extreme climatic events and heat …

Marine heatwaves threaten cryptic coral diversity and erode associations among coevolving partners

S Starko, JE Fifer, DC Claar, SW Davies, R Cunning… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Climate change–amplified marine heatwaves can drive extensive mortality in foundation
species. However, a paucity of longitudinal genomic datasets has impeded understanding of …