Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change

C Mellin, CC Hicks, DA Fordham, CD Golden… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The sustainability of coral reef fisheries is jeopardized by complex and interacting socio-
ecological stressors that undermine their contribution to food and nutrition security. Climate …

Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs

FM França, CE Benkwitt, G Peralta… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tropical forests and coral reefs host a disproportionately large share of global biodiversity
and provide ecosystem functions and services used by millions of people. Yet, ongoing …

The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts

CM Eakin, HPA Sweatman, RE Brainard - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
2017 was an unprecedented period of successive record-breaking hot years, which
coincided with the most severe, widespread, and longest-lasting global-scale coral …

Marine heatwaves are not a dominant driver of change in demersal fishes

AL Fredston, WWL Cheung, TL Frölicher, ZJ Kitchel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves have been linked to negative ecological effects in recent decades,. If
marine heatwaves regularly induce community reorganization and biomass collapses in …

Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on coral reefs

CE Benkwitt, SK Wilson, NAJ Graham - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - nature.com
Positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) highlight the
importance of conserving biodiversity to maintain key ecosystem functions and associated …

Changing role of coral reef marine reserves in a warming climate

NAJ Graham, JPW Robinson, SE Smith… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are among the first to fundamentally change in structure due to
climate change, which leads to questioning of whether decades of knowledge regarding reef …

Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes, and impact upon structural complexity

AJ Fordyce, TD Ainsworth, SF Heron… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Risks to future atoll habitability from climate‐driven environmental changes

VKE Duvat, AK Magnan, CT Perry… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent assessments of future risk to atoll habitability have focused on island erosion and
submergence, and have overlooked the effects of other climate‐related drivers, as well as …

Severe coral loss shifts energetic dynamics on a coral reef

RA Morais, M Depczynski, C Fulton… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Declining coral cover and loss of structural complexity are widely reported on today's coral
reefs. While coral loss frequently triggers changes in coral reef fish assemblage structure …

The functional roles of surgeonfishes on coral reefs: past, present and future

SB Tebbett, AC Siqueira, DR Bellwood - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2022 - Springer
Surgeonfishes have had a long evolutionary history that has been closely linked with coral
reef ecosystems. Today they are a key component of reef fish assemblages, playing a …