Decommissioning of offshore oil and gas structures–Environmental opportunities and challenges

B Sommer, AM Fowler, PI Macreadie… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thousands of offshore oil and gas structures are approaching the end of their operating life
globally, yet our understanding of the environmental effects of different decommissioning …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

Decadal demographic shifts and size-dependent disturbance responses of corals in a subtropical warming hotspot

B Sommer, JM Hodge, L Lachs, J Cant, JM Pandolfi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Long-term demographic studies at biogeographic transition zones can elucidate how body
size mediates disturbance responses. Focusing on subtropical reefs in eastern Australia, we …

Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high‐latitude eastern Australia

SW Kim, EM Sampayo, B Sommer… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental anomalies that trigger adverse physiological responses and mortality are
occurring with increasing frequency due to climate change. At species' range peripheries …

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 …

Comparing patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in reef coral communities

JSY Wong, YKS Chan, CSL Ng, KPP Tun, ES Darling… - Coral Reefs, 2018 - Springer
Biodiversity defines the variety of living organisms on this planet and is often quantified by
the total number of species. However, species richness is insufficient in accounting for the …

Factors limiting the range extension of corals into high-latitude reef regions

D Abrego, EJ Howells, SDA Smith, JS Madin… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reef-building corals show a marked decrease in total species richness from the tropics to
high latitude regions. Several hypotheses have been proposed to account for this pattern in …

Infectivity and stress tolerance traits affect community assembly of plant pathogenic fungi

S Choi, JW Yang, JE Kim, H Jeon, S Shin… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how ecological communities assemble is an urgent research priority. In this
study, we used a community ecology approach to examine how ecological and evolutionary …

The projected degradation of subtropical coral assemblages by recurrent thermal stress

J Cant, R Salguero‐Gómez, SW Kim… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Subtropical coral assemblages are threatened by similar extreme thermal stress events to
their tropical counterparts. Yet, the mid‐and long‐term thermal stress responses of corals in …

Transitional coral ecosystem of Taiwan in the era of changing climate

CY Kuo, S Keshavmurthy, YY Huang, MJ Ho… - Coral Reefs of Eastern …, 2023 - Springer
The transitional coral ecosystem of Taiwan features tropical and temperate scleractinian
coral species and suboptimal environmental conditions. As the largest continental island in …