Ghost of bleaching future: Seasonal outlooks from NOAA's Operational Climate Forecast System
"Using models to inform the possible future of coral reefs can happen on many scales. At the seasonal timescale, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW) and National Centers for Environment Prediction (NCEP) rece...
"In the 1980s and early 1990s, coral reef bleaching events of unprecedented frequency and global extent were observed. Elevated water temperature is suspected as the primary causal stress of mass bleaching events from this period. The relationship between...
Early cellular changes are indicators of pre-bleaching thermal stress in the coral host
"Thermal stress causes the coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis to disassociate and the coral tissues to whiten. The onset and occurrence of this coral bleaching is primarily defined via the dinoflagellate responses. Here we demonstrate that thermal stress resp...
Species-specific declines in the linear extension of branching corals at a subtropical reef, Lord Howe Island
"Reef-building corals are extremely sensitive to changing temperature regimes, such that sustained increases in ocean temperatures are generally expected to have negative effects on coral growth and survivorship. At high latitude reefs, however, projected...
A global inventory of coral reef stressors based on satellite observed nighttime lights
"In this article, we present a satellite-based approach to gather information about the threat to coral reefs worldwide. Three chosen reef stressors - development, gas flaring and heavily lit fishing boat activity - are analysed using nighttime lights dat...
Earth observation based assessment of anthropogenic stress to coral reefs - a global analysis
"In this paper a remote sensing based approach to assess potential anthropogenic stress to coral reefs worldwide is presented. Three reef stressors are analyzed using nighttime lights data derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) p...
Climate change 2014: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Part B: Regional aspects. Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
"The report characterizes the observed impacts of climate change globally and outlines future climate change risks, as well as the role of vulnerability in human and natural ecosystems. This Part B is comprised of the final 10 chapters take a regional per...
A comparison of the 1998 and 2002 coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef: Spatial correlation, patterns, and predictions
"Detailed mapping of coral bleaching events provides an opportunity to examine spatial patterns in bleaching over scales of 10 s to 1,000 s of km and the spatial correlation between sea surface temperature (SST) and bleaching. We present data for two larg...
Ghost of bleaching future: Seasonal outlooks from NOAA's Operational Climate Forecast System
"The report characterizes the observed impacts of climate change globally and outlines future climate change risks, as well as the role of vulnerability in human and natural ecosystems. This Part B is comprised of the final 10 chapters take a regional per...