Is ocean acidification really a threat to marine calcifiers? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 980+ studies spanning two decades

JYS Leung, S Zhang, SD Connell - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification is considered detrimental to marine calcifiers, but mounting contradictory
evidence suggests a need to revisit this concept. This systematic review and meta‐analysis …

Prevotella: A key player in ruminal metabolism

CL Betancur-Murillo, SB Aguilar-Marín, J Jovel - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ruminants are foregut fermenters that have the remarkable ability of converting plant
polymers that are indigestible to humans into assimilable comestibles like meat and milk …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

N Hasler, CA Williams, VC Denney, PW Ellis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Restoring tree cover changes albedo, which is the fraction of sunlight reflected from the
Earth's surface. In most locations, these changes in albedo offset or even negate the carbon …

Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales

SB Tebbett, SR Connolly, DR Bellwood - Nature ecology & evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Globally, ecosystems are being reconfigured by a range of intensifying human-induced
stressors. Coral reefs are at the forefront of this environmental transformation, and if we are …

Triggers, cascades, and endpoints: connecting the dots of coral bleaching mechanisms

J Helgoe, SK Davy, VM Weis… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The intracellular coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis is the engine that underpins the success of
coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. However, the breakdown of …

Systematic review of the uncertainty of coral reef futures under climate change

SG Klein, C Roch, CM Duarte - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change impact syntheses, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, consistently assert that limiting global warming to 1.5° C is unlikely to safeguard …

Four decades of trends and drivers of global surface ocean acidification

D Ma, L Gregor, N Gruber - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The oceans are acidifying in response to the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, yet the global‐scale progression of this acidification has …

Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production

CE Cornwall, J Carlot, O Branson… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the drivers of net coral reef calcium carbonate production is increasingly
important as ocean warming, acidification, and other anthropogenic stressors threaten the …

[HTML][HTML] Corals at the edge of environmental limits: A new conceptual framework to re-define marginal and extreme coral communities

V Schoepf, JH Baumann, DJ Barshis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …