Systematic review of the uncertainty of coral reef futures under climate change

SG Klein, C Roch, CM Duarte - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change impact syntheses, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, consistently assert that limiting global warming to 1.5° C is unlikely to safeguard …

Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change

TR McClanahan, ES Darling, M Beger… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying locations of refugia from the thermal stresses of climate change for coral reefs
and better managing them is one of the key recommendations for climate change …

Past disturbances and local conditions influence the recovery rates of coral reefs

AS Walker, CA Kratochwill… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Corals are being increasingly subjected to marine heatwaves. Theory suggests that
increasing the intensity of disturbances reduces recovery rates, which inspired us to …

Gene expression plasticity governing symbiosis during natural coral bleaching

C Wang, KA Roeroe, Z Zhou, G Niu, J Du, W Hu… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing global frequency and severity of coral bleaching events, driven by the loss of
endosymbiotic algae, pose a significant threat to these vital ecosystems. However, gene …

Corals that survive repeated thermal stress show signs of selection and acclimatization

OS McCarthy, M Winston Pomeroy, JE Smith - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is transforming coral reefs by increasing the frequency and intensity of
marine heatwaves, often leading to coral bleaching and mortality. Coral communities have …

The 2022 summer marine heatwaves and coral bleaching in China's Greater Bay Area

Y Zhao, M Chen, TH Chung, LL Chan… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract From July to August 2022, scleractinian coral communities in China's Greater Bay
Area (GBA) in the northern South China Sea (nSCS) experienced an unprecedented …

Temperature Response of South Florida Estuaries to the 2023 Heatwave

J Shi, C Hu, E Stabenau - Estuaries and Coasts, 2024 - Springer
While a record-high in situ water temperature of 38.4° C on July 24, 2023, has been
measured from a local site in Florida's Manatee Bay, satellite images revealed more …

Standardization of in situ coral bleaching measurements highlights the variability in responses across genera, morphologies, and regions

A Khen, CB Wall, JE Smith - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Marine heatwaves and regional coral bleaching events have become more frequent and
severe across the world's oceans over the last several decades due to global climate …

Environmental Concentrations of Herbicide Prometryn Render Stress-Tolerant Corals Susceptible to Ocean Warming

Y Zhou, Q Li, Q Zhang, M Yuan, X Zhu… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Global warming has caused the degradation of coral reefs around the world. While stress-
tolerant corals have demonstrated the ability to acclimatize to ocean warming, it remains …

Exceptional atmospheric conditions in June 2023 generated a northwest European marine heatwave which contributed to breaking land temperature records

S Berthou, R Renshaw, T Smyth, J Tinker… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Northwest European shelf experienced unprecedented surface temperature
anomalies in June 2023 (anomalies up to 5° C locally, north of Ireland). Here, we show the …