The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

Insights from extreme coral reefs in a changing world

JA Burt, EF Camp, IC Enochs, JL Johansen… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Coral reefs are one of the most biodiverse and economically important ecosystems in the
world, but they are rapidly degrading due to the effects of global climate change and local …

SymPortal: A novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next‐generation sequencing ITS2 profiling

BCC Hume, EG Smith, M Ziegler… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present SymPortal (SymPortal. org), a novel analytical framework and platform
for genetically resolving the algal symbionts of reef corals using next‐generation …

Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves

DC Claar, S Starko, KL Tietjen, HE Epstein… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prospects for coral persistence through increasingly frequent and extended heatwaves
seem bleak. Coral recovery from bleaching is only known to occur after temperatures return …

Causes and consequences of the 2017 coral bleaching event in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf

JA Burt, F Paparella, N Al-Mansoori, A Al-Mansoori… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
Coral reefs of the Persian/Arabian Gulf were the last to succumb to the effects of the global-
scale mass coral bleaching event that began in 2015. This study examines the causes and …

Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world's warmest reefs

EG Smith, KM Hazzouri, JY Choi, P Delaney… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coral populations in the world's warmest reefs, the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG), represent an
ideal model system to understand the evolutionary response of coral populations to past and …

The arabian gulf

GO Vaughan, N Al-Mansoori, JA Burt - World seas: An environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian/Persian Gulf is a geologically young sea bordered by eight rapidly
develo** nations. Its marine and coastal systems contain a diverse and interconnected …

Coral bleaching in the Persian/Arabian Gulf is modulated by summer winds

F Paparella, C Xu, GO Vaughan, JA Burt - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Corals in the Persian/Arabian Gulf are the most thermally tolerant in the world, but live very
near the thresholds of their thermal tolerance. Warming sea temperatures associated with …

Genomic and transcriptomic signals of thermal tolerance in heat‐tolerant corals (Platygyra daedalea) of the Arabian/Persian Gulf

NL Kirk, EJ Howells, D Abrego, JA Burt… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Scleractinian corals occur in tropical regions near their upper thermal limits and are severely
threatened by rising ocean temperatures. However, several recent studies have shown coral …

Localized outbreaks of coral disease on Arabian reefs are linked to extreme temperatures and environmental stressors

GS Aeby, E Howells, T Work, D Abrego, GJ Williams… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Arabian Peninsula borders the hottest reefs in the world, and corals living in
these extreme environments can provide insight into the effects of warming on coral health …