Scleractinian corals and their symbiotic dinoflagellate algae build massive, wave-resistant
coral reefs that are pre-eminent in shallow tropical seas. This mutualism is especially …

▪ Abstract Many factors (climate warming, pollution, harvesting, introduced species) can
contribute to disease outbreaks in marine life. Concomitant increases in each of these …

Since the early 1980s, episodes of coral reef bleaching and mortality, due primarily to
climate-induced ocean warming, have occurred almost annually in one or more of the …

Coral reef bleaching, the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa, results from the loss of
symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in …

Coral reef bleaching, the temporary or permanent loss of photosynthetic microalgae
(zooxanthellae) and/or their pigments by a variety of reef taxa, is a stress response usually …

Mass coral bleaching events caused by elevated seawater temperatures, have resulted in
extensive coral mortality throughout the tropics over the past few decades,. With continued …

Trait-based approaches advance ecological and evolutionary research because traits
provide a strong link to an organism's function and fitness. Trait-based research might lead …

'It should be clear that the upper temperature limit for life cannot be accurately
defined'(Schmidt-Nielsen 1996). The thermal physiology of zooxanthellate reef corals is …

Coral bleaching has been defined as a general phenomenon, whereby reef corals turn
visibly pale because of the loss of their symbiotic dinoflagellates and/or algal pigments …

Despite extensive research into the coral bleaching phenomena there are very few data
which examine the population biology of affected species. These data are required in order …