Coral reefs in shallow-water environments (< 30 m) are in decline due to local and global
anthropogenic stresses. This has led to renewed interest in the 'deep reef refugia'hypothesis …

Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

Since the early 1980s, episodes of coral reef bleaching and mortality, due primarily to
climate-induced ocean warming, have occurred almost annually in one or more of the …

Background A number of factors have recently caused mass coral mortality events in all of
the world's tropical oceans. However, little is known about the timing, rate or spatial …

Very little is known about how environmental changes such as increasing temperature affect
disease dynamics in the ocean, especially at large spatial scales. We asked whether the …

across the globe, we are witnessing the decline of coral reef ecosystems. One relatively new
factor contributing to this decline is the outbreak of destructive infectious diseases …

Coral reefs are in decline worldwide, and land‐derived sources of pollution, including
sewage, are a major force driving that deterioration. This review presents evidence that …

In the northeast Caribbean, doldrum-like conditions combined with elevated water
temperatures in the summer/fall 2005 created the most severe coral bleaching event ever …

Despite progress in the past decade, researchers struggle to evaluate the hypothesis that
environmental conditions compromise immunity and facilitate new disease outbreaks. In this …

Over the past 40 years, two of the dominant reef-building corals in the Caribbean,
Acroporaápalmata and Acroporaácervicornis, have experienced unprecedented declines …