Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

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 …

Coral bleaching is the single largest global threat to coral reefs worldwide. Integrating the
diverse body of work on coral bleaching is critical to understanding and combating this …

The extent to which populations persist under environmental stress depends on the
reproductive output of individuals that survive the stress. In coral systems, corals bleach in …

Variation among functionally similar species in their response to environmental stress
buffers ecosystems from changing states. Functionally similar species may often be cryptic …

The persistence of reef building corals is threatened by human-induced environmental
change. Maintaining coral reefs into the future requires not only the survival of adults, but …

Cryptic species that are morphologically similar co-occur because either the rate of
competitive exclusion is very slow, or because they are not, in fact, ecologically similar. The …

With the advent of genomics, sequencing thousands of loci from hundreds of individuals
now appears feasible at reasonable costs, allowing complex phylogenies to be resolved …

Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) influence coral thermal tolerance at both
local and regional scales. In isolation, the effects of host genetics, environment, and thermal …

Global-and local-scale anthropogenic stressors have been the main drivers of coral reef
decline, causing shifts in coral reef community composition and ecosystem functioning …