Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Functional ecology of fish: current approaches and future challenges

S Villéger, S Brosse, M Mouchet, D Mouillot, MJ Vanni - Aquatic Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

TP Hughes, JT Kerry, AH Baird, SR Connolly, A Dietzel… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Global warming is rapidly emerging as a universal threat to ecological integrity and function,
highlighting the urgent need for a better understanding of the impact of heat exposure on the …

Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality

L Alvarez-Filip, FJ González-Barrios… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Diseases are major drivers of the deterioration of coral reefs and are linked to major
declines in coral abundance, reef functionality, and reef-related ecosystems services. An …

Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny

FJ Pollock, R McMinds, S Smith, DG Bourne… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Scleractinian corals' microbial symbionts influence host health, yet how coral microbiomes
assembled over evolution is not well understood. We survey bacterial and archaeal …

Functional trait‐based approaches as a common framework for aquatic ecologists

S Martini, F Larras, A Boyé, E Faure… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic ecologists face challenges in identifying the general rules of the functioning of
ecosystems. A common framework, including freshwater, marine, benthic, and pelagic …

Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs

S Hackerott, HA Martell, JM Eirin-Lopez - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a
dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the relation between species traits and extinction risk

F Chichorro, A Juslén, P Cardoso - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is shrinking rapidly, and despite our efforts only a small part of it has been
assessed for extinction risk. Identifying the traits that make species vulnerable might help us …

Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits, and reef fish assemblages

ES Darling, NAJ Graham, FA Januchowski-Hartley… - Coral Reefs, 2017 - Springer
With the ongoing loss of coral cover and the associated flattening of reef architecture,
understanding the links between coral habitat and reef fishes is of critical importance. Here …

Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

ES Darling, TR McClanahan, J Maina… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Without drastic efforts to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate globalized stressors, tropical
coral reefs are in jeopardy. Strategic conservation and management requires identification …