[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 …

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 …

Decadal demographic shifts and size-dependent disturbance responses of corals in a subtropical warming hotspot

B Sommer, JM Hodge, L Lachs, J Cant, JM Pandolfi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Long-term demographic studies at biogeographic transition zones can elucidate how body
size mediates disturbance responses. Focusing on subtropical reefs in eastern Australia, we …

Marine heatwaves impair the thermal refugia potential of marginal reefs in the northern South China Sea

S Mo, T Chen, Z Chen, W Zhang, S Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Frequent marine heatwaves (MHWs), concurrent with climate warming, threaten global low-
latitude, pristine coral reefs, leading to growing interest in identifying marginal coral reefs …

Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs

LA Jones, PD Mannion, A Farnsworth, F Bragg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse
ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving …

Heatwaves alter survival of the Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea glomerata

E Scanes, LM Parker, WA O'Connor, MC Dove… - Marine pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heatwaves are an increasing threat to organisms across the globe. Marine and atmospheric
heatwaves are predicted to impact sessile intertidal marine organisms, especially when …

The 2022 summer marine heatwaves and coral bleaching in China's Greater Bay Area

Y Zhao, M Chen, TH Chung, LL Chan… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract From July to August 2022, scleractinian coral communities in China's Greater Bay
Area (GBA) in the northern South China Sea (nSCS) experienced an unprecedented …

Coral bleaching susceptibility is predictive of subsequent mortality within but not between coral species

SB Matsuda, AS Huffmyer, EA Lenz… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Marine heat waves instigated by anthropogenic climate change are causing increasingly
frequent and severe coral bleaching events that often lead to widespread coral mortality …

Successive marine heatwaves cause disproportionate coral bleaching during a fast phase transition from El Niño to La Niña

SJ Dalton, AG Carroll, E Sampayo, G Roff… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves that result in coral bleaching events have
increased over recent decades and led to catastrophic losses of reef-building corals in many …

Paradise lost: End‐of‐century warming and acidification under business‐as‐usual emissions have severe consequences for symbiotic corals

RM Van der Zande, M Achlatis… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, current global emission
trajectories are still following the business‐as‐usual representative concentration pathway …