Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life

CR Voolstra, R Alderdice, L Colin… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess, climate change–induced
atmospheric heat. The resulting rise in oceanic temperatures affects all species and can …

Reconciling the variability in the biological response of marine invertebrates to climate change

Z Dellaert, HM Putnam - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
As climate change increases the rate of environmental change and the frequency and
intensity of disturbance events, selective forces intensify. However, given the complicated …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …

Corals that survive repeated thermal stress show signs of selection and acclimatization

OS McCarthy, M Winston Pomeroy, JE Smith - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is transforming coral reefs by increasing the frequency and intensity of
marine heatwaves, often leading to coral bleaching and mortality. Coral communities have …

Using Community Composition and Successional Theory to Guide Site‐Specific Coral Reef Management

OS McCarthy, ELA Kelly, AK Akiona… - Global Change …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
High spatial or temporal variability in community composition makes it challenging for
natural resource managers to predict ecosystem trajectories at scales relevant to …

Niche breadth and divergence in sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.) across habitats within reefs and among algal symbionts

SC Burgess, AM Turner… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While the presence of morphologically cryptic species is increasingly recognized, we still
lack a useful understanding of what causes and maintains co‐occurring cryptic species and …

Short-term stress testing predicts subsequent natural bleaching variation

C Caruso, MR de Souza, V Kahkejian, JM Davidson… - Coral Reefs, 2025 - Springer
Reef degradation induced by climate change is motivating interest in active management
strategies to retain living coral cover including coral restoration. Understanding the level and …

The photosymbiotic acoel Convolutriloba retrogemma (Xenacoelomorpha) is sensitive to thermal stress

MC Querido, AZ Güth, AG Garrido, C Zilberberg… - Journal of Experimental …, 2025 - Elsevier
Multiple marine invertebrate species have been utilized as model organisms for
investigations on the effects of climate change and bleaching on animal-algal symbioses …

Coral histology reveals consistent declines in tissue integrity during a marine heatwave despite differences in bleaching severity

E Kruse, KT Brown, KL Barott - PeerJ, 2025 - peerj.com
Marine heatwaves are starting to occur several times a decade, yet we do not understand
the effect this has on corals across biological scales. This study combines tissue-, organism …

Divergent recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass, E Kruse, R McClintock… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme heat stress events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent …