Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods

RH McLachlan, JT Price, SL Solomon, AG Grottoli - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
For over three decades, scientists have conducted heat-stress experiments to predict how
coral will respond to ocean warming due to global climate change. However, there are often …

Ocean acidification promotes broad transcriptomic responses in marine metazoans: a literature survey

ME Strader, JM Wong, GE Hofmann - Frontiers in Zoology, 2020 - Springer
For nearly a decade, the metazoan-focused research community has explored the impacts
of ocean acidification (OA) on marine animals, noting that changes in ocean chemistry can …

Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification

E Sampaio, C Santos, IC Rosa, V Ferreira… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past decades, three major challenges to marine life have emerged as a
consequence of anthropogenic emissions: ocean warming, acidification and oxygen loss …

Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment

V Schoepf, M Stat, JL Falter, MT McCulloch - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Naturally extreme temperature environments can provide important insights into the
processes underlying coral thermal tolerance. We determined the bleaching resistance of …

Experimental coral reef communities transform yet persist under mitigated future ocean warming and acidification

CP Jury, KD Bahr, A Cros, KL Dobson, EB Freel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Coral reefs are among the most sensitive ecosystems affected by ocean warming and
acidification, and are predicted to collapse over the next few decades. Reefs are predicted to …

Shifting the microbiome of a coral holobiont and improving host physiology by inoculation with a potentially beneficial bacterial consortium

Y Zhang, Q Yang, J Ling, L Long, H Huang, J Yin… - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Background The coral microbiome plays a key role in host health by being involved in
energy metabolism, nutrient cycling, and immune system formation. Inoculating coral with …

Coral physiology and microbiome dynamics under combined warming and ocean acidification

AG Grottoli, P Dalcin Martins, MJ Wilkins, MD Johnston… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Rising seawater temperature and ocean acidification threaten the survival of coral reefs. The
relationship between coral physiology and its microbiome may reveal why some corals are …

Host–symbiont combinations dictate the photo-physiological response of reef-building corals to thermal stress

KD Hoadley, AM Lewis, DC Wham, DT Pettay… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
High sea surface temperatures often lead to coral bleaching wherein reef-building corals
lose significant numbers of their endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae). These …

Threatened Caribbean coral is able to mitigate the adverse effects of ocean acidification on calcification by increasing feeding rate

EK Towle, IC Enochs, C Langdon - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Global climate change threatens coral growth and reef ecosystem health via ocean warming
and ocean acidification (OA). Whereas the negative impacts of these stressors are …

Symbiosis maintenance in the facultative coral, Oculina arbuscula, relies on nitrogen cycling, cell cycle modulation, and immunity

HE Rivera, SW Davies - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Symbiosis with unicellular algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae is common across tropical
marine invertebrates. Reef-building corals offer a clear example of cellular dysfunction …