Heat tolerance varies considerably within a reef-building coral species on the Great Barrier Reef

MS Naugle, H Denis, VJL Mocellin, PW Laffy… - … earth & environment, 2024 - nature.com
Reef-building coral populations face unprecedented threats from climate warming. Standing
variation in heat tolerance is crucial for evolutionary processes necessary for corals to …

The coral bleaching automated stress system (CBASS): a low‐cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits

NR Evensen, KE Parker, TA Oliver… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming is increasingly affecting marine ecosystems across the globe. Reef‐building
corals are particularly affected by warming, with mass bleaching events increasing in …

Differential impacts of light on coral phenotypic responses to acute heat stress

C Castro-Sanguino, D Stick, S Duffy, C Grimaldi… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reef building corals are in global decline due to climate change and other pressures. Yet,
corals show wide variation in physiological responses to heat stress. The influence of light is …

[HTML][HTML] Combined effect of marine heatwaves and light intensity on the cellular stress response and photophysiology of the leather coral Sarcophyton cf. glaucum

M Travesso, M Missionário, S Cruz, R Calado… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHW) are threatening tropical coral reef ecosystems, leading to mass
bleaching events worldwide. The combination of heat stress with high irradiance is known to …

Coral bleaching resistance variation is linked to differential mortality and skeletal growth during recovery

NS Walker, V Nestor, Y Golbuu… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of global coral bleaching has focused much attention on the possibility of
interventions to increase heat resistance. However, if high heat resistance is linked to fitness …

Thermal tolerance traits of individual corals are widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptation of reef-building corals to global warming depends upon standing heritable
variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. Yet limited knowledge exists on …

Taking the Pulse of Resilience in Conserving Seagrass Meadows

OJ Graham, D Harvell, B Christiaen… - Integrative and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Foundational habitats such as seagrasses and coral reefs are at severe risk globally from
climate warming. Infectious disease associated with warming events is both a cause of …

Environmental, host, and symbiont drivers of heat tolerance in a species complex of reef-building corals

MS Naugle, H Denis, VJL Mocellin, PW Laffy, I Popovic… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Reef-building coral populations are under unprecedented threat from climate warming. Yet,
variation in coral heat tolerance exists whereby some colonies can cope with higher sea …

Fine‐Scale Geographic Variation of Cladocopium in Acropora hyacinthus Across the Palauan Archipelago

KC Armstrong, M Lippert, E Hanson… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiont genotype plays a vital role in the ability of a coral host to tolerate rising ocean
temperatures, with some members of the family Symbiodiniaceae possessing more thermal …

Quantifying the thermal tolerance traits of individual corals reveals widespread variation across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin, MS Naugle, G Lecellier… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The capacity of reef-building corals to adapt to global warming depends upon standing
heritable variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. While heat tolerance is …