[HTML][HTML] Future loss of local-scale thermal refugia in coral reef ecosystems

AM Dixon, PM Forster, SF Heron, AMK Stoner… - Plos Climate, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Thermal refugia underpin climate-smart management of coral reefs, but whether current
thermal refugia will remain so under future warming is uncertain. We use statistical …

Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism

MJ Struebig, SG Aninta, M Beger, A Bani, H Barus… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Wallacea—the meeting point between the Asian and Australian fauna—is one of the world's
largest centers of endemism. Twenty-three million years of complex geological history have …

Strengthening resilience potential assessments for coral reef management

M Gudka, D Obura, EA Treml… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The persistence of diverse yet threatened ecosystems like coral reefs will require urgent
action underpinned by effective assessments of resilience. Resilience potential …

Coral responses to climate change exposure

TR McClanahan - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A brief historical narrative of coral responses to climate change exposures is followed by a
review of evidence. I trace the history of investigations and summarize the findings from 112 …

Recent exposure to environmental stochasticity does not determine the demographic resilience of natural populations

J Cant, P Capdevila, M Beger… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Escalating climatic and anthropogenic pressures expose ecosystems worldwide to
increasingly stochastic environments. Yet, our ability to forecast the responses of natural …

Coral reef exposure to damaging tropical cyclone waves in a warming climate

AM Dixon, M Puotinen, HA Ramsay, M Beger - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical cyclones generate large waves that physically damage coral communities and are
commonly cited as a worsening threat to coral reefs under climate change. However …

Considering biotic interactions exacerbates the predicted impacts of climate change on coral‐dwelling species

Z Zhang, S Ma, Á Bede‐Fazekas… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is affecting the geographic distributions of many species and
researchers are increasingly relying on species distribution models (SDMs) to forecast …

High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts

F Chong, B Sommer, G Stant, N Verano, J Cant… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic impacts are typically detrimental to tropical coral reefs, but the effect of
increasing environmental stress and variability on the size structure of coral communities …

Planning for resilience: Incorporating scenario and model uncertainty and trade‐offs when prioritizing management of climate refugia

I Chollett, X Escovar‐Fadul, SR Schill… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has become the greatest threat to the world's ecosystems. Locating and
managing areas that contribute to the survival of key species under climate change is critical …

Coral composition and bottom-wave metrics improve understanding of the patchiness of cyclone damage on reefs

C Castro-Sanguino, YM Bozec, D Callaghan… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coral reefs are likely to be exposed to more intense cyclones under climate change.
Cyclone impacts are spatially highly variable given complex hydrodynamics, and coral …