Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

[HTML][HTML] Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

R Cavicchioli, WJ Ripple, KN Timmis, F Azam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming

CE Cornwall, S Comeau, NA Kornder… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ocean warming and acidification threaten the future growth of coral reefs. This is because
the calcifying coral reef taxa that construct the calcium carbonate frameworks and cement …

Beyond buying time: the role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change

RJ Fox, JM Donelson, C Schunter… - … transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to
their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …

Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

A stony coral cell atlas illuminates the molecular and cellular basis of coral symbiosis, calcification, and immunity

S Levy, A Elek, X Grau-Bové, S Menéndez-Bravo… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Stony corals are colonial cnidarians that sustain the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on
Earth: coral reefs. Despite their ecological importance, little is known about the cell types …

Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes

TP Hughes, JT Kerry, SR Connolly, AH Baird… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Climate change is radically altering the frequency, intensity and spatial scale of severe
weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires. As the time interval shrinks …

The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral–microbiota interactions

AR Mohamed, MA Ochsenkühn… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms,
some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

V Radchuk, T Reed, C Teplitsky, M van de Pol… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and
regions, but it remains unclear whether species are maintaining a good match between …