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 …

The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world

CR Voolstra, JB Raina, M Dörr, A Cárdenas… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

Energetic and reproductive costs of coral recovery in divergent bleaching responses

SE Leinbach, KE Speare, AM Rossin, DM Holstein… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mass thermal bleaching events are a primary threat to coral reefs, yet the sublethal impacts,
particularly on energetics and reproduction, are poorly characterized. Given that the …

Coral recruitment: patterns and processes determining the dynamics of coral populations

PJ Edmunds - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coral recruitment describes the addition of new individuals to populations, and it is one of
the most fundamental demographic processes contributing to population size. As many coral …

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 …

Symbiotic dinoflagellates divert energy away from mutualism during coral bleaching recovery

L Allen-Waller, KL Barott - Symbiosis, 2023 - Springer
The future of coral reefs in a warming world depends on corals' ability to recover from
bleaching, the loss of their symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodiniaceae) during marine …

Successive extreme climatic events lead to immediate, large‐scale, and diverse responses from fish in the Arctic

B Husson, S Lind, M Fossheim… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The warming trend of the Arctic is punctuated by several record‐breaking warm years with
very low sea ice concentrations. The nature and reversibility of marine ecosystem responses …

Coral taxonomy and local stressors drive bleaching prevalence across the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2019

M Winston, T Oliver, C Couch, MK Donovan, GP Asner… - PLoS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Hawaiian Archipelago experienced a moderate bleaching event in 2019—the third
major bleaching event over a 6-year period to impact the islands. In response, the Hawai 'i …

Multi-year coral recruitment study across the Florida Reef Tract reveals boom-or-bust pattern among broadcast spawners and consistency among brooders

LM Harper, LK Huebner, EDO Cain, R Ruzicka… - Marine Ecology …, 2023 - int-res.com
Scleractinian coral populations are in global decline, and successful recruitment is
fundamental to community persistence and recovery, but recruitment may vary by coral …

Genetic patterns in Montipora capitata across an environmental mosaic in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i

C Caruso, M Rocha de Souza, L Ruiz‐Jones… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial genetic structure (SGS) is important to a population's ability to adapt to
environmental change. For species that reproduce both sexually and asexually, the relative …