Ocean currents magnify upwelling and deliver nutritional subsidies to reef-building corals during El Niño heatwaves

MD Fox, R Guillaume-Castel, CB Edwards, J Glanz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Marine heatwaves are triggering coral bleaching events and devastating coral populations
globally, highlighting the need to identify processes promoting coral survival. Here, we show …

Differential susceptibility of reef-building corals to deoxygenation reveals remarkable hypoxia tolerance

MD Johnson, SD Swaminathan, EN Nixon, VJ Paul… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Ocean deoxygenation threatens the persistence of coastal ecosystems worldwide. Despite
an increasing awareness that coastal deoxygenation impacts tropical habitats, there …

Inorganic and organic nutrients in tropical–subtropical Western Pacific coral reef waters

HT Lin, V Denis, CC Hsieh, CJ Chen, WV Hsiao… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Coral reef ecosystems host diversified and highly productive communities, but corals are
degrading in many places worldwide. Picking suitable locations to maximize coral …

Viruses of a key coral symbiont exhibit temperature-driven productivity across a reefscape

LI Howe-Kerr, CGB Grupstra, KM Rabbitt… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Viruses can affect coral health by infecting their symbiotic dinoflagellate partners
(Symbiodiniaceae). Yet, viral dynamics in coral colonies exposed to environmental stress …

Current status and prospects of coral reef ecology research

H Hui, YU **aolei, H Lintao, J Lei - Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2024 - jto.ac.cn
Coral reef ecosystems are important components of marine ecosystems and play a crucial
role in maintaining marine ecological balance and biodiversity. This article summarizes the …

Coral thermal stress and bleaching enrich and restructure reef microbial communities via altered organic matter exudation

WJ Sparagon, MGI Arts, ZA Quinlan… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Coral bleaching is a well-documented and increasingly widespread phenomenon in reefs
across the globe, yet there has been relatively little research on the implications for reef …

Long-term coral microbial community acclimatization is associated with coral survival in a changing climate

JT Price, RH McLachlan, CP Jury, RJ Toonen… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The plasticity of some coral-associated microbial communities under stressors like warming
and ocean acidification suggests the microbiome has a role in the acclimatization of corals …

Microbiome signatures in Acropora cervicornis are associated with genotypic resistance to elevated nutrients and heat stress

AM Palacio-Castro, SM Rosales, CE Dennison… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
The staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, was once abundant in the Caribbean, but now is
listed as critically endangered. To recover A. cervicornis populations, restoration efforts have …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrient pollution enhances productivity and framework dissolution in algae-but not in coral-dominated reef communities

F Roth, YC El-Khaled, DB Karcher, N Rädecker… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services provided by coral reefs may be susceptible to the combined effects of
benthic species shifts and anthropogenic nutrient pollution, but related field studies are …

Seabird-derived nutrients supply modulates the trophic strategies of mixotrophic corals

M Thibault, F Houlbreque, NN Duprey… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The ability of corals to modulate their nutrition strategy in response to variable nutrient
supply remains poorly understood, limiting our understanding of energy flow in coral reef …