Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking

DJ Suggett, DJ Smith - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continued declines in coral reef health over the past three decades have been punctuated
by severe mass coral bleaching‐induced mortality events that have grown in intensity and …

Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area

S Strydom, K Murray, S Wilson, B Huntley… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs),
has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date, metrics of thermal stress …

Mesophotic coral bleaching associated with changes in thermocline depth

C Diaz, NL Foster, MJ Attrill, A Bolton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As global temperatures continue to rise, shallow coral reef bleaching has become more
intense and widespread. Mesophotic coral ecosystems reside in deeper (30–150 m), cooler …

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 …

A global coral-bleaching database, 1980–2020

R van Woesik, C Kratochwill - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Coral reefs are the world's most diverse marine ecosystems that provide resources and
services that benefit millions of people globally. Yet, coral reefs have recently experienced …

Nutrient-supplying ocean currents modulate coral bleaching susceptibility

TM DeCarlo, L Gajdzik, J Ellis, DJ Coker… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
With predictions that mass coral bleaching will occur annually within this century,
conservation efforts must focus their limited resources based on an accurate understanding …

Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle

LC McManus, DL Forrest, EW Tekwa… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Corals are experiencing unprecedented decline from climate change‐induced mass
bleaching events. Dispersal not only contributes to coral reef persistence through …

Predictive models for the selection of thermally tolerant corals based on offspring survival

KM Quigley, MJH van Oppen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Finding coral reefs resilient to climate warming is challenging given the large spatial scale of
reef ecosystems. Methods are needed to predict the location of corals with heritable …

Cumulative bleaching undermines systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef

MWM Cheung, K Hock, W Skirving, PJ Mumby - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Climate change and ENSO have triggered five mass coral bleaching events on Australia's
Great Barrier Reef (GBR), three of which occurred in the last 5 years. 1–5 Here, we explore …