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 …

Microplastics in the coral ecosystems: A threat which needs more global attention

T Biswas, SC Pal, A Saha, D Ruidas, M Shit… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are one of the leading pollutants on the earth's surface and are found
almost everywhere, including in aquatic environments. Microplastic pollution (MPP) on the …

Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming

AK Pezner, TA Courtney, HC Barkley, WC Chou… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to threaten marine ecosystems globally. However, current
and future oxygen concentrations and the occurrence of hypoxic events on coral reefs …

Local habitat heterogeneity rivals regional differences in coral thermal tolerance

KT Brown, MP Martynek, KL Barott - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Variable temperature regimes that expose corals to sublethal heat stress have been
recognized as a mechanism to increase coral thermal tolerance and lessen coral bleaching …

Short-term heat stress assays resolve effects of host strain, repeat stress, and bacterial inoculation on Aiptasia thermal tolerance phenotypes

M Dörr, J Denger, CS Maier, JV Kirsch, H Manns… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
The ongoing loss of corals and their reef ecosystems hastens the need to develop
approaches that mitigate the impacts of climate change. Given the strong reliance of corals …

Thermal tolerance traits of individual corals are widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptation of reef-building corals to global warming depends upon standing heritable
variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. Yet limited knowledge exists on …

Divergent responses of the coral holobiont to deoxygenation and prior environmental stress

SD Swaminathan, JL Meyer, MD Johnson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Ocean deoxygenation is intensifying globally due to human activities–and is emerging as a
grave threat to coral reef ecosystems where it can cause coral bleaching and mass mortality …