Keeping pace with marine heatwaves

NJ Holbrook, A Sen Gupta, ECJ Oliver… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events. They can
have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems—for example, causing mass coral …

Thermal tolerances of reef corals in the Gulf: A review of the potential for increasing coral survival and adaptation to climate change through assisted translocation

SL Coles, BM Riegl - Marine pollution bulletin, 2013 - Elsevier
Corals in the Gulf 1 withstand summer temperatures up to 10° C higher than corals
elsewhere and have recovered from extreme temperature events in 10 years or less. This …

[HTML][HTML] A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

NJ Holbrook, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the
serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely based on …

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

TP Hughes, KD Anderson, SR Connolly, SF Heron… - Science, 2018 - science.org
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 …

Analysis of trend in temperature and rainfall time series of an Indian arid region: comparative evaluation of salient techniques

D Machiwal, A Gupta, MK Jha, T Kamble - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
This study investigated trends in 35 years (1979–2013) temperature (maximum, T max and
minimum, T min) and rainfall at annual and seasonal (pre-monsoon, monsoon, post …

Marine aquarium trade in India: Challenges and opportunities for conservation and policy

S Prakash, TTA Kumar, R Raghavan, A Rhyne… - Marine Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The collection of marine taxa for the aquarium trade continues to demand live animals be
extracted from reefs, but in doing so, offers economic benefits for local communities. To …

Relationship between coral bleaching and large-scale oscillations in the Lakshadweep archipelago

RC Nair, M KR, DK PK - Ocean Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
The coral reef ecosystems in the Lakshadweep Sea are among the least studied due to the
dearth of in situ measurements. The objectives of this study were to compare the remote …

Impact of the tropical cyclone Ockhi on ecological and geomorphological structures of the small low-lying Islands in the Central Indian Ocean

CA Riyas, KK Idreesbabu, N Marimuthu… - Regional Studies in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ockhi, was an intense tropical cyclone that devastated parts of Sri Lanka and India in 2017
and was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea, Central Indian Ocean, since …

Assessment of coral reef thermal stress over India based on remotely sensed sea surface temperature

M Arora, A Gujrati, NR Chaudhury… - Geocarto …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Sea Surface Temperature is a critical physical attribute of coastal marine habitats.
Remote sensing from satellite is the most widely used approach for monitoring the stress on …

Bleaching stress on Indian coral reef regions during mass coral bleaching years using NOAA OISST data

M Arora, NR Chaudhury, A Gujrati, RC Patel - Current Science, 2019 - JSTOR
Coral reefs are one of the most ancient, highly productive marine bio-diverse ecosystems on
earth. They are threatened to collapse under rapid climate change. ENSO is an extreme …