Some coral reef communities may degrade and change but persist

N Knowlton - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Coral reefs have waxed and waned through geological history (1), with the Anthropocene
bringing far more of the latter than the former. Over the past several decades, scientists have …

Herbivore functions in the hot-seat: Resilience of Acanthurus triostegus to marine heatwaves

T Souza, J Brijs, L Tran, L Crowder, JL Johansen - PloS one, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Herbivorous fishes play a crucial role in the conservation of coral reefs threatened by
thermal stress (eg, marine heatwaves and long-term ocean warming) by hel** to maintain …

Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA): A technology solution to enhance zooplankton abundance and coral feeding in bleached and non …

AG Grottoli, SL Dixon, AM Hulver, CE Bardin… - Limnology and … - Wiley Online Library
Coral resilience to heat stress is higher in corals that eat more zooplankton. In addition, coral
feeding on zooplankton increases as zooplankton concentrations increase. To leverage the …

[PDF][PDF] The Role of Rolling Corals and Free-Living Calcifying Coralline Algae in the Management of Greenhouse Gas CO2 in the Colombian Caribbean

DH Marin, CE Gómez, JA Sánchez - 2024 - preprints.org
The ongoing increase in anthropogenic CO₂ emissions since the industrial revolution has
accelerated ocean acidification (OA) by introducing CO₂ into seawater, forming carbonic …