Regional coral responses to climate disturbances and warming is predicted by multivariate stress model and not temperature threshold metrics
"Oceanic environmental variables derived from satellites are increasingly being used to predict ecosystem states and climate impacts. Despite the concerted efforts to develop metrics and the urgency to inform policy, management plans, and actions, few met...
Consistent nutrient storage and supply mediated by diverse fish communities in coral reef ecosystems
"Corals thrive in low nutrient environments and the conservation of these globally imperiled ecosystems is largely dependent on mitigating the effects of anthropogenic nutrient enrichment. However, to better understand the implications of anthropogenic nu...
Shift from coral to macroalgae dominance on a volcanically acidified reef
"Rising anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere is accompanied by an increase in oceanic CO2 and a concomitant decline in seawater pH. The phenomemon, known as ocean acidification (OA), has been experimentally shown to impact the biology and ecology of numero...
Operationalizing resilience for adaptive coral reef management under global environmental change
"Cumulative pressures from global climate and ocean change combined with multiple regional and local-scale stressors pose fundamental challenges to coral reef managers worldwide. Understanding how cumulative stressors affect coral reef vulnerability is cr...
"Coral bleaching has become more frequent and widespread as a result of rising sea surface temperature (SST). During a regional scale SST anomaly, reef exposure to thermal stress is patchy in part due to physical factors that reduce SST to provide thermal...
Framework of barrier reefs threatened by ocean acidification
"To date, studies of ocean acidification (OA) on coral reefs have focused on organisms rather than communities, and the few community effects that have been addressed have focused on shallow back reef habitats. The effects of OA on outer barrier reefs, wh...
Shifts in tourists' sentiments and climate risk perceptions following mass coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef
"Iconic places, including World Heritage areas, are symbolic and synonymous with national and cultural identities. Recognition of an existential threat to an icon may therefore arouse public concern and protective sentiment. Here we test this assumption b...
Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change
"Elevated ocean temperatures can cause coral bleaching, the loss of colour from reef-building corals because of a breakdown of the symbiosis with the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Recent studies have warned that global climate change could increase the fre...
How much time can herbivore protection buy for coral reefs under realistic regimes of hurricanes and coral bleaching?
"Coral reefs have been more severely impacted by recent climate instability than any other ecosystem on Earth. Corals tolerate a narrow range of physical environmental stress, and increases in sea temperature of just 1 degree C over several weeks can resu...
Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification
"Ocean acidification is a global, long-term problem whose ultimate solution requires carbon dioxide reduction at a scope and scale that will take decades to accomplish successfully. Until that is achieved, feasible and locally relevant adaptation and miti...
Regional coral responses to climate disturbances and warming is predicted by multivariate stress model and not temperature threshold metrics