Effects of Environmental and Climatic Changes on Coral Reef Islands

PS Kench - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Coral reef islands are low-lying, wave-deposited sedimentary landforms. Using an eco-
morphodynamic framework, this review examines the sensitivity of islands to climatic and …

Experimental investigation on cross-shore profile evolution of reef-fronted beach

Y Li, C Zhang, S Chen, H Qi, W Dai, H Zhu, T Sui… - Coastal …, 2025 - Elsevier
Physical experiments on cross-shore profile evolution of the reef-fronted beach are
conducted considering various offshore wave conditions and reef settings. Cross-shore …

Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery

TM Kenyon, K Eigeland, K Wolfe… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbances on coral reefs—which are increasing in intensity and frequency—generate
material legacies. These are commonly in the form of rubble beds, which depend on rubble …

[HTML][HTML] Public support for novel interventions to protect, restore, and accelerate adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef

HA Bartelet, S Lockie, BW Ritchie, C Demeter… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2025 - Elsevier
Novel technological interventions are under development to build the resilience of
ecosystems by providing short-term protection from climate extremes, enhancing recovery …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-degradable 'reef bags' used for rubble stabilisation and their impact on rubble stability, binding, coral recruitment and fish occupancy

TM Kenyon, C Jones, D Rissik, W Brassil… - Ecological …, 2025 - Elsevier
Substrate stabilisation can be used to enhance coral recruitment where mobile rubble beds
have formed post-disturbance. We trialled gabion-like 'reef bags', biodegradable coconut …

Conceptualizing social risk in relation to climate change and assisted ecosystem adaptation

S Lockie, V Graham, B Taylor, U Baresi… - Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Realizing positive social and environmental outcomes from assisted ecosystem adaptation
requires the management of complex, uncertain, and ambiguous risks. Using assisted coral …

Rubble persistence under ocean acidification threatened by accelerated bioerosion and lower‐density coral skeletons

AE Webb, AM Palacio‐Castro, K Cooke… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As the balance between erosional and constructive processes on coral reefs tilts in favor of
framework loss under human‐induced local and global change, many reef habitats …

Assessing the relationship between coral cover and coral recruitment in the degraded ecosystems of Sempu Nature Reserve, East Java, Indonesia

A ISDIANTO, RAYU WIBOWO, AV KUDRATI… - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2024 - smujo.id
Isdianto A, Wibowo RA, Kudrati AV, Aliviyanti D, Asadi MA, Dewi CSU, Setyanto A, Lelono
TD, Tumulyadi A, Hidayah LN, Fathah AL, Putri BM, Wardana NK, Supriyadi, Luthfi OM …

Internal hydrodynamics within the skeleton of Acropora pulchra coral

Y Tian, P Zhang, H Huang, L Lei, SAG Torres, L Li - iScience, 2025 - cell.com
Many marine life forms, like Acropora coral, develop abiotic components to host and support
the growth of living organisms. Using numerical models based on real coral samples …

[HTML][HTML] A probabilistic coral rubble mechanical instability model applied with field observations from the Great Barrier reef

D Liu, DP Callaghan, A Wuppukondur, TE Baldock - Coastal Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Unstable coral rubble hinders coral recruitment and recovery of coral reefs after damage
from cyclones and bleaching events. If coral rubble remains unstable under typical everyday …