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 …

Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life

CR Voolstra, R Alderdice, L Colin… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess, climate change–induced
atmospheric heat. The resulting rise in oceanic temperatures affects all species and can …

Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world's coral reefs

C Mellin, S Brown, N Cantin, E Klein-Salas… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Spatial and temporal patterns of future coral bleaching are uncertain, hampering global
conservation efforts to protect coral reefs against climate change. Our analysis of daily …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass, E Kruse… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …

Oceanic differences in coral-bleaching responses to marine heatwaves

T Shlesinger, R van Woesik - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Anomalously high ocean temperatures have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration
over the last several decades because of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global …

Deoxygenation lowers the thermal threshold of coral bleaching

R Alderdice, G Perna, A Cárdenas, BCC Hume… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Exposure to deoxygenation from climate warming and pollution is emerging as a
contributing factor of coral bleaching and mortality. However, the combined effects of heating …

Past disturbances and local conditions influence the recovery rates of coral reefs

AS Walker, CA Kratochwill… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Corals are being increasingly subjected to marine heatwaves. Theory suggests that
increasing the intensity of disturbances reduces recovery rates, which inspired us to …

Symbiotic dinoflagellates divert energy away from mutualism during coral bleaching recovery

L Allen-Waller, KL Barott - Symbiosis, 2023 - Springer
The future of coral reefs in a warming world depends on corals' ability to recover from
bleaching, the loss of their symbiotic dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodiniaceae) during marine …

High sea surface temperatures were a prerequisite for the development and expansion of the Great Barrier Reef

B Petrick, L Reuning, A Auderset, M Pfeiffer, G Auer… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the modern ocean. To date, the influence
of temperature on the origin and long-term evolution of the Great Barrier Reef remains …

Breeding and selecting corals resilient to global warming

KM Quigley - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Selective breeding of resilient organisms is an emerging topic in marine conservation. It can
help us predict how species will adapt in the future and how we can help restore struggling …