Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change

C Mellin, CC Hicks, DA Fordham, CD Golden… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The sustainability of coral reef fisheries is jeopardized by complex and interacting socio-
ecological stressors that undermine their contribution to food and nutrition security. Climate …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming

JM Gove, GJ Williams, J Lecky, E Brown, E Conklin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are being fundamentally restructured by local human impacts and
climate-driven marine heatwaves that trigger mass coral bleaching and mortality. Reducing …

Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales

SB Tebbett, SR Connolly, DR Bellwood - Nature ecology & evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Globally, ecosystems are being reconfigured by a range of intensifying human-induced
stressors. Coral reefs are at the forefront of this environmental transformation, and if we are …

Protecting connectivity promotes successful biodiversity and fisheries conservation

L Fontoura, S D'agata, M Gamoyo, DR Barneche… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The global decline of coral reefs has led to calls for strategies that reconcile biodiversity
conservation and fisheries benefits. Still, considerable gaps in our understanding of the …

Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome

PE Galand, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. They support high biodiversity
of multicellular organisms that strongly rely on associated microorganisms for health and …

Low human interest for the most at-risk reef fishes worldwide

N Mouquet, J Langlois, N Casajus, A Auber… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Human interest in biodiversity is essential for effective conservation action but remains
poorly quantified at large scales. Here, we investigated human interest for 2408 marine reef …

Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on coral reefs

CE Benkwitt, SK Wilson, NAJ Graham - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - nature.com
Positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) highlight the
importance of conserving biodiversity to maintain key ecosystem functions and associated …

Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs

M McWilliam, MS Pratchett… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The disturbance regimes of ecosystems are changing, and prospects for continued recovery
remain unclear. New assemblages with altered species composition may be deficient in key …

Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?

SJ Brandl, JS Lefcheck, AE Bates… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
All animals on Earth compete for free energy, which is acquired, assimilated, and ultimately
allocated to growth and reproduction. Competition is strongest within communities of …