Coral reefs and climate change
This presentation describes basic coral biology and climate change effects currently impacting coral reefs (range shifts, ocean circulation changes, sea level rise, ocean acidification, ocean temperature increases, bleaching, and disease). It also provide...
Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks
"Very little is known about how environmental changes such as increasing temperature affect disease dynamics in the ocean, especially at large spatial scales. We asked whether the frequency of warm temperature anomalies is positively related to the freque...
New insights into global patterns of ocean temperature anomalies: Implications for coral reef health and management
"Coral reefs are widely considered to be particularly vulnerable to changes in ocean temperatures, yet we understand little about the broad-scale spatio-temporal patterns that may cause coral mortality from bleaching and disease. Our study aimed to charac...