"Coral reefs face a range of serious anthropogenic threats that may significantly alter their ecological composition and reduce their capacity to deliver essential ecosystem services. Human influences such as destructive and overfishing, terrestrial runof...

"Observations of mass coral bleaching and mortality over the past 4 decades are linked to periods of anomalously warm sea surface temperatures, which have become more frequent as the climate has warmed (Glynn 1991; Hoegh-Guldberg 1999; Donner et al. 2017;...

"Coral reef slive within a fairly narrow envelope of environmental conditions constrained by water temperatures, light, salinity, nutrients, bathymetry, and the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Bddemeier and Kinzie 1976; Kleypas et al. 1999; Hoegh-...