Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals

N Rädecker, C Pogoreutz, HM Gegner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recurrent mass bleaching events are pushing coral reefs worldwide to the brink of
ecological collapse. While the symptoms and consequences of this breakdown of the coral …

Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves

MK Donovan, DE Burkepile, C Kratochwill… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Climate change threatens coral reefs by causing heat stress events that lead to widespread
coral bleaching and mortality. Given the global nature of these mass coral mortality events …

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming

JM Gove, GJ Williams, J Lecky, E Brown, E Conklin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are being fundamentally restructured by local human impacts and
climate-driven marine heatwaves that trigger mass coral bleaching and mortality. Reducing …

A global analysis of coral bleaching over the past two decades

S Sully, DE Burkepile, MK Donovan, G Hodgson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Thermal-stress events associated with climate change cause coral bleaching and mortality
that threatens coral reefs globally. Yet coral bleaching patterns vary spatially and temporally …

[HTML][HTML] Future loss of local-scale thermal refugia in coral reef ecosystems

AM Dixon, PM Forster, SF Heron, AMK Stoner… - Plos Climate, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Thermal refugia underpin climate-smart management of coral reefs, but whether current
thermal refugia will remain so under future warming is uncertain. We use statistical …

Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs

S Hackerott, HA Martell, JM Eirin-Lopez - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a
dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …

Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area

S Strydom, K Murray, S Wilson, B Huntley… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs),
has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date, metrics of thermal stress …

Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics

ASJ Wyatt, JJ Leichter, L Washburn, L Kui… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean
ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely …