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 …

Breeding and Selecting Corals Resilient to Global Warming

KM Quigley - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Selective breeding of resilient organisms is an emerging topic in marine conservation. It can
help us predict how species will adapt in the future and how we can help restore struggling …

Oceanic differences in coral-bleaching responses to marine heatwaves

T Shlesinger, R van Woesik - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Anomalously high ocean temperatures have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration
over the last several decades because of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global …

The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys

LT Toth, TA Courtney, MA Colella… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coral‐reef degradation is driving global‐scale reductions in reef‐building capacity and the
ecological, geological, and socioeconomic functions it supports. The persistence of those …

Global change differentially modulates Caribbean coral physiology

CB Bove, SW Davies, JB Ries, J Umbanhowar… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Global change driven by anthropogenic carbon emissions is altering ecosystems at
unprecedented rates, especially coral reefs, whose symbiosis with algal symbionts is …

Caribbean Marine Heatwaves, Marine Cold Spells, and Co‐Occurrence of Bleaching Events

P Cetina‐Heredia… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Marine heatwaves (MHWs) and Cold Spells (marine cold spells (MCSs)) are events
of extreme positive and negative temperature anomalies, that last 5 days or longer. These …

Exposure to global change and microplastics elicits an immune response in an endangered coral

CB Bove, K Greene, S Sugierski, NG Kriefall… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Global change is increasing seawater temperatures and decreasing oceanic pH, driving
declines of coral reefs globally. Coral ecosystems are also impacted by local stressors …

Gene expression plasticity facilitates acclimatization of a long-lived Caribbean coral across divergent reef environments

KD Castillo, CB Bove, AM Hughes, ME Powell… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Local adaptation can increase fitness under stable environmental conditions. However, in
rapidly changing environments, compensatory mechanisms enabled through plasticity may …

Uneven demographic consequences of the 2022 disease outbreak for the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in Puerto Rico

R Rodríguez-Barreras, CP Ruiz-Diaz… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Pervasive epizootic events have had a significant impact on marine invertebrates throughout
the Caribbean, leading to severe population declines and consequential ecological …

Disturbance intensification is altering the trait composition of Caribbean reefs, locking them into a low functioning state

L Mudge, JF Bruno - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is intensifying natural disturbance regimes, which negatively
affects some species, while benefiting others. This could alter the trait composition of …