The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

Conserving potential coral reef refuges at high latitudes

M Beger, B Sommer, PL Harrison… - Diversity and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim High‐latitude coral reef communities composed of tropical, subtropical and temperate
species are heralded as climate change refuges for vulnerable tropical coral reef species …

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

TP Hughes, KD Anderson, SR Connolly, SF Heron… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent
bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages. We analyzed …

Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals

NM Boulotte, SJ Dalton, AG Carroll… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Reef-building corals possess a range of acclimatisation and adaptation mechanisms to
respond to seawater temperature increases. In some corals, thermal tolerance increases …

A coral reef refuge in the Red Sea

M Fine, H Gildor, A Genin - Global change biology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The stability and persistence of coral reefs in the decades to come is uncertain due to global
warming and repeated bleaching events that will lead to reduced resilience of these …

Unprecedented mass bleaching and loss of coral across 12 of latitude in Western Australia in 2010–11

JAY Moore, LM Bellchambers, MR Depczynski… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Globally, coral bleaching has been responsible for a significant decline in both
coral cover and diversity over the past two decades. During the summer of 2010–11 …

Marine heatwaves impair the thermal refugia potential of marginal reefs in the northern South China Sea

S Mo, T Chen, Z Chen, W Zhang, S Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Frequent marine heatwaves (MHWs), concurrent with climate warming, threaten global low-
latitude, pristine coral reefs, leading to growing interest in identifying marginal coral reefs …

Trait‐mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones

B Sommer, PL Harrison, M Beger, JM Pandolfi - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abiotic filtering is a major driver of gradients in the structure and functioning of ecosystems
from the tropics to the poles. It is thus likely that environmental filtering is an important …

Coral bleaching in space and time

JK Oliver, R Berkelmans, CM Eakin - Coral bleaching: patterns, processes …, 2018 - Springer
Widespread coral bleaching and subsequent mortality have been clearly linked to elevated
sea surface temperatures. As ocean temperatures continue to increase in relation to the …

High macroalgal cover and low coral recruitment undermines the potential resilience of the world's southernmost coral reef assemblages

AS Hoey, MS Pratchett, C Cvitanovic - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs are under increasing pressure from anthropogenic and climate-induced
stressors. The ability of reefs to reassemble and regenerate after disturbances (ie …