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 …

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 …

Reproductive resilience: pathways to gametogenic success in Montipora capitata after bleaching

E Timmins-Schiffman, E Duselis, T Brown… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Thermal bleaching, or the loss of symbiotic algae that provide most energetic resources for
the coral host, is an increasing threat to reefs worldwide and is projected to worsen with …

Lipid composition of coral propagules and reproductive material in coral restoration nurseries

CD Roper, JL Matthews, EF Camp, MP Padula… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Coral restoration efforts have rapidly increased worldwide, including the development of
several programmes on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in recent years. While many …

Parental effects provide an opportunity for coral resilience following major bleaching events

EA Lenz, MJ Donahue, RD Gates, HM Putnam… - PloS one, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Identifying processes that promote coral reef recovery and resilience is crucial as ocean
warming becomes more frequent and severe. Sexual reproduction is essential for the …

Complex parental effects impact variation in larval thermal tolerance in a vertically transmitting coral

EC Johnston, C Caruso, E Mujica, NS Walker, C Drury - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Coral populations must be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions for coral
reefs to persist under climate change. The adaptive potential of these organisms is difficult to …

Dissecting coral recovery: bleaching reduces reproductive output in Acropora millepora

ND Briggs, CA Page, C Giuliano, C Alessi… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Increasingly frequent and severe bleaching events driven by climate change are decreasing
coral populations worldwide. Recovery of these populations relies on reproduction by the …

[HTML][HTML] Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tip** points

P Pearce-Kelly, AH Altieri, JF Bruno… - Earth System …, 2025 - esd.copernicus.org
Warm-water coral reefs are facing unprecedented human-driven threats to their continued
existence as biodiverse functional ecosystems upon which hundreds of millions of people …

Physical connectivity between mesophotic areas in the northern Gulf of Mexico

L Lopera, A Bracco, S Herrera - Journal of Geophysical …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding connectivity patterns is crucial for marine planning, particularly in the design
of marine protected areas or restoration plans. In this study, we assess the potential physical …

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 …