The decline of many coral reef ecosystems in recent decades surprised experienced
managers and researchers. It shattered old paradigms that these diverse ecosystems are …

Principles for designing marine protected area (MPA) networks that address social,
economic, and biological criteria are well established in the scientific literature. Climate …

Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent
bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages. We analyzed …

2017 was an unprecedented period of successive record-breaking hot years, which
coincided with the most severe, widespread, and longest-lasting global-scale coral …

Over the past 3 decades, thermal stress events have damaged corals globally. Few studies,
however, have tracked the recovery process or assessed whether winners in the short term …

Global climate change is having devastating effects on habitat structure in coralreef
ecosystems owing to extreme environmental sensitivities and consequent bleaching of …

Mass thermal bleaching events are a primary threat to coral reefs, yet the sublethal impacts,
particularly on energetics and reproduction, are poorly characterized. Given that the …

Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Coral mortality has increased in recent decades, making coral recruitment more important
than ever in sustaining coral reef ecosystems and contributing to their resilience. This review …

Drivers of recruitment in sessile marine organisms are often poorly understood, due to the
rapidly changing requirements experienced during early ontogeny. The complex suite of …