There is growing concern over climate models that project significant changes in the oceans,
with consequences on marine biodiversity and human well-being. However, marine and …

Concern is growing about the potential effects of interacting multiple stressors, especially as
the global climate changes. We provide a comprehensive review of multiple stressor …

Nutrient loading is one of the strongest drivers of marine habitat degradation. Yet, the link
between nutrients and disease epizootics in marine organisms is often tenuous and …

Disturbances are fundamental components of ecosystems and, in many cases, a dominant
driver of ecosystem structure and function at multiple spatial and temporal scales. While the …

Background The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral
reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events …

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 US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW)
program has developed a daily global 5-km product suite based on satellite observations to …

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

A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Background Coral reefs are facing increasing pressure from natural and anthropogenic
stressors that have already caused significant worldwide declines. In January 2010, coral …