Global disparity in the resilience of coral reefs

G Roff, PJ Mumby - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
The great sensitivity of coral reefs to climate change has raised concern over their resilience.
An emerging body of resilience theory stems largely from research carried out in a single …

Importance of live coral habitat for reef fishes

DJ Coker, SK Wilson, MS Pratchett - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2014 - Springer
Live corals are the key habitat forming organisms on coral reefs, contributing to both
biological and physical structure. Understanding the importance of corals for reef fishes is …

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

NAJ Graham, S Jennings, MA MacNeil, D Mouillot… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Climate-induced coral bleaching is among the greatest current threats to coral reefs, causing
widespread loss of live coral cover. Conditions under which reefs bounce back from …

Anthropogenic ecosystem disturbance and the recovery debt

D Moreno-Mateos, EB Barbier, PC Jones… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Ecosystem recovery from anthropogenic disturbances, either without human intervention or
assisted by ecological restoration, is increasingly occurring worldwide. As ecosystems …

The threat to coral reefs from more intense cyclones under climate change

AJ Cheal, MA MacNeil, MJ Emslie… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming under climate change threatens coral reefs directly, through fatal heat stress
to corals and indirectly, by boosting the energy of cyclones that cause coral destruction and …

Water quality mediates resilience on the Great Barrier Reef

MA MacNeil, C Mellin, S Matthews, NH Wolff… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Threats from climate change and other human pressures have led to widespread concern
for the future of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Resilience of GBR reefs will be …

Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration

X Chen, KK Tung - Science, 2014 - science.org
A vacillating global heat sink at intermediate ocean depths is associated with different
climate regimes of surface warming under anthropogenic forcing: The latter part of the 20th …

Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery

TM Kenyon, C Doropoulos, K Wolfe… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With rubble predicted to increase on coral reefs worldwide, we review the physical,
biological, and ecological dynamics of rubble beds, with a focus on how rubble generation …

The ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on tropical reefs

RM Bonaldo, AS Hoey… - … and marine biology: An …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Global reductions in biodiversity and the accelerating loss and degradation of many of the
world's ecosystems have intensified research into the roles of species in ecosystem …

Changes in biodiversity and functioning of reef fish assemblages following coral bleaching and coral loss

MS Pratchett, AS Hoey, SK Wilson, V Messmer… - Diversity, 2011 - mdpi.com
Coral reef ecosystems are increasingly subject to severe, large-scale disturbances caused
by climate change (eg, coral bleaching) and other more direct anthropogenic impacts. Many …