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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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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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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PLoS ONE, 2018 Coral bleaching continues to be one of the most devastating and immediate impacts of climate change on coral reef ecosystems worldwide. In 2015, a major bleaching event was declared as the "3rd global coral bleaching event" by the United States National ...
Till Röthig +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 In recent years, coral reef ecosystems have been affected by global climate change and human factors, resulting in frequent coral bleaching events. A severe coral bleaching event occurred in the northwest of Hainan Island, South China Sea, in 2020.
Bailu Liu, Lei Guan, Hong Chen
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A novel paleo-bleaching proxy using boron isotopes and high-resolution laser ablation to reconstruct coral bleaching events [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 Coral reefs occupy only ~ 0.1 percent of the ocean's habitat, but are the most biologically diverse marine ecosystem. In recent decades, coral reefs have experienced a significant global decline due to a variety of causes, one of the major causes being ...
G. Dishon +8 more
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High-resolution modeling of thermal thresholds and environmental influences on coral bleaching for local and regional reef management [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Coral reefs are one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems, with global and local stressors contributing to their decline. Excessive sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) can cause coral bleaching, resulting in coral death and decreases in coral cover.
Naoki H. Kumagai +2 more
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Coral reef bleaching monitoring based on multitime Landsat-8 remote sensing image series
地质科技通报, 2022 In recent years, due to the influence of human activities and global warming, the coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea (SCS) has degraded, and bleaching occurs.
Ke Wu, Fan Yang, Ying Xu
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