There is now ample evidence of the ecological impacts of recent climate change, from polar
terrestrial to tropical marine environments. The responses of both flora and fauna span an …

The massive scale of the 1997–1998 El Niño–associated coral bleaching event underscores
the need for strategies to mitigate biodiversity losses resulting from temperature‐induced …

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 …

The carbohydrate polymers known as β-1, 3-d-glucans exert potent effects on the immune
system—stimulating antitumour and antimicrobial activity, for example—by binding to …

Despite extensive research into the coral bleaching phenomena there are very few data
which examine the population biology of affected species. These data are required in order …

Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet.
Scleractinian corals function as the primary reef ecosystem engineers, constructing the …

Coral bleaching, ie, loss of most of the symbiotic zooxanthellae normally found within coral
tissue, has occurred with increasing frequency on coral reefs throughout the world in the last …

A field study of coral bleaching and coral communities was undertaken spanning 8 countries
and~ 35 of latitude in 2005. This was combined with studies in southern Kenya and …

We compared the bleaching and mortality response (BMI) of 19 common scleractinian corals
to an anomalous warm-water event in 1998 to determine the degree of variation between …

Abstract The South Pacific convergence zone (SPCZ) is the Southern Hemisphere's most
expansive and persistent rain band, extending from the equatorial western Pacific Ocean …