Socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves: Global issues and opportunities

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday, A Sen Gupta… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Anthropogenic climate change is altering the structure and functioning of
ecosystems globally. The upper layers of the oceans have absorbed> 90% of the excess …

The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

HV Ford, NH Jones, AJ Davies, BJ Godley… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts

CM Eakin, HPA Sweatman, RE Brainard - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
2017 was an unprecedented period of successive record-breaking hot years, which
coincided with the most severe, widespread, and longest-lasting global-scale coral …

Assessment of the utility of underwater hyperspectral imaging for surveying and monitoring coral reef ecosystems

MS Mills, M Ungermann, G Rigot, J den Haan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Technological innovations that improve the speed, scale, reproducibility, and accuracy of
monitoring surveys will allow for a better understanding of the global decline in tropical reef …

Early recovery dynamics of turbid coral reefs after recurring bleaching events

RD Evans, SK Wilson, R Fisher, NM Ryan… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The worlds' coral reefs are declining due to the combined effects of natural disturbances and
anthropogenic pressures including thermal coral bleaching associated with global climate …

Coral community resilience to successive years of bleaching in Kāne 'ohe Bay, Hawai 'i

R Ritson-Williams, RD Gates - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Hawaiian Islands are at the northern edge of coral reef distributions, and corals
found there are exposed to large seasonal temperature changes. Historically, coral …

Coral larvae increase nitrogen assimilation to stabilize algal symbiosis and combat bleaching under increased temperature

AS Huffmyer, J Ashey, E Strand, EN Chiles, X Su… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Rising sea surface temperatures are increasingly causing breakdown in the nutritional
relationship between corals and algal endosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae), threatening the …

Synergies between local and climate-driven impacts on coral reefs in the Tropical Pacific: A review of issues and adaptation opportunities

LXC Dutra, MDE Haywood, S Singh, M Ferreira… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coral reefs in the tropical Pacific region are exposed to a range of anthropogenic local
pressures. Climate change is exacerbating local impacts, causing unprecedented declines …

Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration

RV Thurber, ER Schmeltzer, AG Grottoli, R van Woesik… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration
specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration [PeerJ] Related research …

The 2014-17 global coral bleaching event: the most severe and widespread coral reef destruction

CM Eakin, D Devotta, SF Heron, S Connolly, G Liu… - 2022 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Ocean warming is increasing the incidence, scale, and severity of global-scale coral
bleaching and mortality, culminating in the third global coral bleaching event that occurred …