"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-...

"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...