Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

DR Bellwood, MS Pratchett, TH Morrison… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The world's coral reefs are rapidly transforming, with decreasing coral cover and new
species configurations. These new Anthropocene reefs pose a challenge for conservation; …

Plastic and evolutionary responses to climate change in fish

LG Crozier, JA Hutchings - Evolutionary applications, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The physical and ecological 'fingerprints' of anthropogenic climate change over the past
century are now well documented in many environments and taxa. We reviewed the …

Warming trends and bleaching stress of the world's coral reefs 1985–2012

SF Heron, JA Maynard, R Van Hooidonk, CM Eakin - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Coral reefs across the world's oceans are in the midst of the longest bleaching event on
record (from 2014 to at least 2016). As many of the world's reefs are remote, there is limited …

An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot

T Wernberg, DA Smale, F Tuya, MS Thomsen… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Extreme climatic events, such as heat waves, are predicted to increase in frequency and
magnitude as a consequence of global warming but their ecological effects are poorly …

[LIBRO][B] The normalized difference vegetation index

N Pettorelli - 2013 - books.google.com
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

The threat to coral reefs from more intense cyclones under climate change

AJ Cheal, MA MacNeil, MJ Emslie… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming under climate change threatens coral reefs directly, through fatal heat stress
to corals and indirectly, by boosting the energy of cyclones that cause coral destruction and …

Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience

TP Hughes, NAJ Graham, JBC Jackson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
Phase-shifts from one persistent assemblage of species to another have become
increasingly commonplace on coral reefs and in many other ecosystems due to escalating …

Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

NJ Bennett, J Blythe, S Tyler, NC Ban - Regional Environmental Change, 2016 - Springer
The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus
exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals …

Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

WWL Cheung, VWY Lam, JL Sarmiento… - Fish and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change can impact the pattern of marine biodiversity through changes in species'
distributions. However, global studies on climate change impacts on ocean biodiversity have …

Larval dispersal and marine population connectivity

RK Cowen, S Sponaugle - Annual review of marine science, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Connectivity, or the exchange of individuals among marine populations, is a central topic in
marine ecology. For most benthic marine species with complex life cycles, this exchange …