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 …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

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 …

Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards

SW Kim, B Sommer, M Beger… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is driving rapid and widespread erosion of the environmental conditions that
formerly supported species persistence. Existing projections of climate change typically …

Learning from the past is not enough to survive present and future bleaching threshold temperatures

S Keshavmurthy, TR Chen, PJ Liu, JT Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past decade, the frequency of mass coral bleaching events has increased due to
seawater temperature anomalies persisting for longer periods. Coral survival from …

Ploidy variation and its implications for reproduction and population dynamics in two sympatric Hawaiian coral species

TG Stephens, EL Strand, HM Putnam… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Standing genetic variation is a major driver of fitness and resilience and therefore of
fundamental importance for threatened species such as stony corals. We analyzed RNA-seq …

Linking population size structure, heat stress and bleaching responses in a subtropical endemic coral

L Lachs, B Sommer, J Cant, JM Hodge, HA Malcolm… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Anthropocene coral reefs are faced with increasingly severe marine heatwaves and mass
coral bleaching mortality events. The ensuing demographic changes to coral assemblages …

Net effects of life‐history traits explain persistent differences in abundance among similar species

M McWilliam, M Dornelas, M Álvarez‐Noriega… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Life‐history traits are promising tools to predict species commonness and rarity because
they influence a population's fitness in a given environment. Yet, species with similar traits …

The Young and the Resilient: Investigating coral thermal resilience in early life stages

NS Walker, L Isma, N García, A True… - Integrative and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Global ocean warming is affecting keystone species distributions and fitness, resulting in the
degradation of marine ecosystems. Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and productive …