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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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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Mesophotic coral communities escape thermal coral bleaching in French Polynesia [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Climate change and consequent coral bleaching are causing the disappearance of reef-building corals worldwide. While bleaching episodes significantly impact shallow waters, little is known about their impact on mesophotic coral communities.
Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales +6 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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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.
Andréa G Grottoli +37 more
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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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Exposure to elevated sea-surface temperatures below the bleaching threshold impairs coral recovery and regeneration following injury [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Elevated sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are linked to an increase in the frequency and severity of bleaching events due to temperatures exceeding corals’ upper thermal limits. The temperatures at which a breakdown of the coral-Symbiodinium endosymbiosis
Joshua Louis Bonesso +2 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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Coral-dwelling fish moderate bleaching susceptibility of coral hosts.
PLoS ONE, 2018 Global environmental change has the potential to disrupt well established species interactions, with impacts on nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. On coral reefs, fish living within the branches of coral colonies can promote coral performance, and ...
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Identification of quorum sensing-regulated Vibrio fortis as potential pathogenic bacteria for coral bleaching and the effects on the microbial shift. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Sun X +10 more
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