Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOcean warming is increasing the frequency, extent, and severity of tropical-coral bleaching and mortality. During 2014–2017, marine heatwaves caused the Third Global Coral Bleaching Event.
C. Mark Eakin +178 more
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Future of coral bleaching research. [PDF]
BioscienceAbstract Coral bleaching is the largest global threat to coral reef ecosystem persistence this century. Advancing our understanding of coral bleaching and developing solutions to protect corals and the reefs they support are critical.
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Increase in the extent of mass coral bleaching over the past half-century, based on an updated global database [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The recurrence of mass coral bleaching and associated coral mortality in the past few decades have raised questions about the future of coral reef ecosystems.
Alejandra Virgen-Urcelay +1 more
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Moderate chlorophyll-a environments reduce coral bleaching during thermal stress in Yap, Micronesia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Thermal-stress events on coral reefs lead to coral bleaching, mortality, and changes in species composition. The coral reefs of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia, however, remained largely unaffected by major thermal-stress events until 2020 ...
Rachael Keighan +4 more
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Coral Bleaching Detection in the Hawaiian Islands Using Spatio-Temporal Standardized Bottom Reflectance and Planet Dove Satellites [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 We present a new method for the detection of coral bleaching using satellite time-series data. While the detection of coral bleaching from satellite imagery is difficult due to the low signal-to-noise ratio of benthic reflectance, we overcame this ...
Yaping Xu +7 more
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Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments. [PDF]
Ecol Appl, 2021 AbstractCoral bleaching is the single largest global threat to coral reefs worldwide. Integrating the diverse body of work on coral bleaching is critical to understanding and combating this global problem. Yet investigating the drivers, patterns, and processes of coral bleaching poses a major challenge. A recent review of published experiments revealed
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Nitric oxide production rather than oxidative stress and cell death is associated with the onset of coral bleaching in Pocillopora acuta [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Elevated seawater temperatures associated with climate change lead to coral bleaching. While the ultimate causes of bleaching are well understood, the proximate physiological mechanisms underlying the bleaching response are not as well defined.
Christopher P. Jury +4 more
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Spatially restricted coral bleaching as an ecological manifestation of within-colony heterogeneity [PDF]
Communications BiologyCoral bleaching is a widespread stress response of reef-building corals to elevated sea temperatures, resulting in the loss of symbiotic algae and often leading to coral death and reef degradation. Although coral bleaching occurs globally, not all reefs,
Christian R. Voolstra +5 more
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Atypical weather patterns cause coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia during the 2021-2022 La Niña. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 McGowan H, Theobald A.
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Genotype by environment interactions in coral bleaching. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2021 Drury C, Lirman D.
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