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 …

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 …

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 …

Ecosystem recovery from anthropogenic disturbances, either without human intervention or
assisted by ecological restoration, is increasingly occurring worldwide. As ecosystems …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Coral reefs are in global decline, converting from dominance by coral to dominance by
seaweed. Once seaweeds become abundant, coral recovery is suppressed unless …