Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods

RH McLachlan, JT Price, SL Solomon, AG Grottoli - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
For over three decades, scientists have conducted heat-stress experiments to predict how
coral will respond to ocean warming due to global climate change. However, there are often …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

TP Hughes, KD Anderson, SR Connolly, SF Heron… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent
bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages. We analyzed …

[HTML][HTML] High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching

A Safaie, NJ Silbiger, TR McClanahan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Coral bleaching is the detrimental expulsion of algal symbionts from their cnidarian hosts,
and predominantly occurs when corals are exposed to thermal stress. The incidence and …

Thermal refugia against coral bleaching throughout the northern Red Sea

EO Osman, DJ Smith, M Ziegler, B Kürten… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical reefs have been impacted by thermal anomalies caused by global warming that
induced coral bleaching and mortality events globally. However, there have only been very …

Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook

AC Baker, PW Glynn, B Riegl - Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 2008 - Elsevier
Since the early 1980s, episodes of coral reef bleaching and mortality, due primarily to
climate-induced ocean warming, have occurred almost annually in one or more of the …

Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments

AG Grottoli, RJ Toonen, R van Woesik… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching is the single largest global threat to coral reefs worldwide. Integrating the
diverse body of work on coral bleaching is critical to understanding and combating this …

Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes—ecological and economic consequences

MS Pratchett, PL Munday, SK Wilson… - … and marine biology, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Global climate change is having devastating effects on habitat structure in coralreef
ecosystems owing to extreme environmental sensitivities and consequent bleaching of …

Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of …

TC LaJeunesse, DT Pettay, EM Sampayo… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study examines the importance of geographic proximity, host life history and
regional and local differences in environment (temperature and water clarity) in driving the …

Energetic and reproductive costs of coral recovery in divergent bleaching responses

SE Leinbach, KE Speare, AM Rossin, DM Holstein… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mass thermal bleaching events are a primary threat to coral reefs, yet the sublethal impacts,
particularly on energetics and reproduction, are poorly characterized. Given that the …