Coral reef ecosystems under climate change and ocean acidification

O Hoegh-Guldberg, ES Poloczanska… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are found in a wide range of environments, where they provide food and habitat
to a large range of organisms as well as providing many other ecological goods and …

Ecological variables for developing a global deep-ocean monitoring and conservation strategy

R Danovaro, E Fanelli, J Aguzzi, D Billett… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The deep sea (> 200 m depth) encompasses> 95% of the world's ocean volume and
represents the largest and least explored biome on Earth (< 0.0001% of ocean surface), yet …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic

T Morato, JM González‐Irusta… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The deep sea plays a critical role in global climate regulation through uptake and storage of
heat and carbon dioxide. However, this regulating service causes warming, acidification and …

Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

AK Sweetman, AR Thurber, CR Smith, LA Levin… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The deep sea encompasses the largest ecosystems on Earth. Although poorly known, deep
seafloor ecosystems provide services that are vitally important to the entire ocean and …

Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction

LA Levin, CL Wei, DC Dunn, DJ Amon… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing
acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food …

Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time

RC Portilho-Ramos, J Titschack, C Wienberg… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Cold-water corals (CWCs) are the engineers of complex ecosystems forming unique
biodiversity hotspots in the deep sea. They are expected to suffer dramatically from future …

Using 3D photogrammetry from ROV video to quantify cold-water coral reef structural complexity and investigate its influence on biodiversity and community …

DM Price, K Robert, A Callaway, C Lo Lacono, RA Hall… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Fine-scale structural complexity created by reef-building coral in shallow-water
environments is influential on biodiversity, species assemblage and functional trait …

The indirect effects of ocean acidification on corals and coral communities

TS Hill, MO Hoogenboom - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Ocean acidification (OA) is a major threat to marine calcifying organisms. This manuscript
gives an overview of the physiological effects of acidification on reef-building corals from a …