Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes, and impact upon structural complexity

AJ Fordyce, TD Ainsworth, SF Heron… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Contingency planning for coral reefs in the Anthropocene; The potential of reef safe havens

EF Camp - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Reducing the global reliance on fossil fuels is essential to ensure the long-term survival of
coral reefs, but until this happens, alternative tools are required to safeguard their future …

Symbioses are restructured by repeated mass coral bleaching

KM Quigley, B Ramsby, P Laffy, J Harris… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Survival of symbiotic reef-building corals under global warming requires rapid acclimation or
adaptation. The impact of accumulated heat stress was compared across 1643 symbiont …

Energetic and reproductive costs of coral recovery in divergent bleaching responses

SE Leinbach, KE Speare, AM Rossin, DM Holstein… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Deoxygenation lowers the thermal threshold of coral bleaching

R Alderdice, G Perna, A Cárdenas, BCC Hume… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Exposure to deoxygenation from climate warming and pollution is emerging as a
contributing factor of coral bleaching and mortality. However, the combined effects of heating …

Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility

R Alderdice, DJ Suggett, A Cárdenas… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure of marine life to low oxygen is accelerating worldwide via climate change and
localized pollution. Mass coral bleaching and mortality have recently occurred where reefs …

Different functional traits among closely related algal symbionts dictate stress endurance for vital Indo‐Pacific reef‐building corals

KD Hoadley, DT Pettay, A Lewis, D Wham… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reef‐building corals in the genus Porites are one of the most important constituents of Indo‐
Pacific reefs. Many species within this genus tolerate abnormally warm water and exhibit …

Recurrent mass-bleaching and the potential for ecosystem collapse on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

MS Pratchett, SF Heron, C Mellin… - Ecosystem collapse and …, 2021 - Springer
Coral reefs are extremely vulnerable to human-induced climate change. Most notably,
increasing ocean temperatures are causing increasing incidence and severity of mass coral …

Coral restoration effectiveness: multiregional snapshots of the long-term responses of coral assemblages to restoration

MY Hein, R Beeden, A Birtles, NM Gardiner, T Le Berre… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Coral restoration is rapidly becoming a mainstream strategic reef management response to
address dramatic declines in coral cover worldwide. Restoration success can be defined as …

The spatial footprint and patchiness of large‐scale disturbances on coral reefs

A Dietzel, SR Connolly, TP Hughes… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems have always been shaped by disturbances, but many of these events are
becoming larger, more severe and more frequent. The recovery capacity of depleted …