The Indian Ocean Dipole in a warming world

G Wang, W Cai, A Santoso, N Abram, B Ng… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) strongly affects the climate of the Indo-Pacific.
Observations suggest a shift towards stronger and earlier positive IOD (pIOD) events …

[HTML][HTML] Urban coral reefs: Degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia

EC Heery, BW Hoeksema, NK Browne, JD Reimer… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Given predicted increases in urbanization in tropical and subtropical regions, understanding
the processes shaping urban coral reefs may be essential for anticipating future …

Widespread phytoplankton blooms triggered by 2019–2020 Australian wildfires

W Tang, J Llort, J Weis, MMG Perron, S Basart, Z Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Droughts and climate-change-driven warming are leading to more frequent and intense
wildfires,–, arguably contributing to the severe 2019–2020 Australian wildfires. The …

[HTML][HTML] Future loss of local-scale thermal refugia in coral reef ecosystems

AM Dixon, PM Forster, SF Heron, AMK Stoner… - Plos Climate, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Thermal refugia underpin climate-smart management of coral reefs, but whether current
thermal refugia will remain so under future warming is uncertain. We use statistical …

A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation

JE Herbert-Read, A Thornton, DJ Amon… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change.
While there are well-known drivers of these changes, such as overexploitation, climate …

Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming

W Cai, K Yang, L Wu, G Huang, A Santoso, B Ng… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
A strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) induces weather extremes such as the 2019
Australian bushfires and African floods. The impact is influenced by sea surface temperature …

Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium

NJ Abram, NM Wright, B Ellis, BC Dixon, JB Wurtzel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects climate and rainfall across the world, and
most severely in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean,,–. The frequency and intensity of …

Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

W Cai, A Santoso, G Wang, E Weller, L Wu, K Ashok… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean dipole is a prominent mode of coupled ocean–atmosphere
variability 1, 2, 3, 4, affecting the lives of millions of people in Indian Ocean rim countries 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Forests, atmospheric water and an uncertain future: the new biology of the global water cycle

D Sheil - Forest Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
Theory and evidence indicate that trees and other vegetation influence the atmospheric
water-cycle in various ways. These influences are more important, more complex, and more …

Unhealthy landscapes: policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

JA Patz, P Daszak, GM Tabor, AA Aguirre… - Environmental …, 2004 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and
emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include …