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Heterotrophic compensation: a possible mechanism for resilience of coral reefs to global warming or a sign of prolonged stress? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Thermally induced bleaching has caused a global decline in corals and the frequency of such bleaching events will increase. Thermal bleaching severely disrupts the trophic behaviour of the coral holobiont, reducing the photosynthetically derived energy ...
Adam D Hughes, Andréa G Grottoli
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Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial-Refugia Hypothesis. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
ABSTRACT The rising threat of marine heatwaves has led to numerous predictions that coral reefs, especially those near the Equator, will be severely degraded by the end of the current century. Yet, environmental conditions near the Equator may regionally moderate coral bleaching by reducing thermal stress during marine heatwaves.
Ferris Z, Walker AS, Rue H, van Woesik R.   +3 more
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Mass coral bleaching in 2010 in the southern Caribbean. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Ocean temperatures are increasing globally and the Caribbean is no exception. An extreme ocean warming event in 2010 placed Tobago's coral reefs under severe stress resulting in widespread coral bleaching and threatening the livelihoods that rely on them.
Jahson Berhane Alemu I, Ysharda Clement
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Coral bleach-out in Belize [PDF]

Nature, 2000
The highest sea surface temperatures ever recorded, related both to the 1997–98 El Nino/Southern Oscillation and to global warming1, caused severe bleaching of corals worldwide in 1998 (ref. 2). This thermal anomaly induced mass mortality of scleractinian corals on lagoonal reefs in Belize, the first time that a coral population in the Caribbean has ...
R B, Aronson, W F, Precht, I G, Macintyre, T J, Murdoch   +3 more
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Whole transcriptome analysis reveals changes in expression of immune-related genes during and after bleaching in a reef-building coral [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Climate change is negatively affecting the stability of natural ecosystems, especially coral reefs. The dissociation of the symbiosis between reef-building corals and their algal symbiont, or coral bleaching, has been linked to increased sea surface ...
Jorge H. Pinzón, Bishoy Kamel, Colleen A. Burge, C. Drew Harvell, Mónica Medina, Ernesto Weil, Laura D. Mydlarz   +6 more
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Hurricanes benefit bleached corals [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
Recent, global mass-mortalities of reef corals due to record warm sea temperatures have led researchers to consider global warming as one of the most significant threats to the persistence of coral reef ecosystems. The passage of a hurricane can alleviate thermal stress on coral reefs, highlighting the potential for hurricane-associated cooling to ...
Derek P, Manzello, Marilyn, Brandt, Tyler B, Smith, Diego, Lirman, James C, Hendee, Richard S, Nemeth   +5 more
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Cell death and degeneration in the symbiotic dinoflagellates of the coral Stylophora pistillata during bleaching [PDF]

, 2004
Rising sea temperatures are increasing the incidences of mass coral bleaching (the dissociation of the coral–algal symbiosis) and coral mortality. In this study, the effects of bleaching (induced by elevated light and temperature) on the condition of ...
Berges , John A., Berges, J. A., Jones, R. J., Franklin, D. J., Jones, R.J., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Franklin, Daniel J.   +6 more
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A new, high-resolution global mass coral bleaching database. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Episodes of mass coral bleaching have been reported in recent decades and have raised concerns about the future of coral reefs on a warming planet. Despite the efforts to enhance and coordinate coral reef monitoring within and across countries, our ...
Simon D Donner, Gregory J M Rickbeil, Scott F Heron   +2 more
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Biogeography and change among regional coral communities across the western Indian Ocean [PDF]

, 2014
Coral reefs are biodiverse ecosystems structured by abiotic and biotic factors operating across many spatial scales. Regional-scale interactions between climate change, biogeography and fisheries management remain poorly understood.
Nyawira A Muthiga, Timothy R. McClanahan (166326), McClanahan, T. R., Graham, Nicholas A. J., Nyawira A. Muthiga (549238), Emily S Darling, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Timothy R McClanahan, Nicholas A. J. Graham (115235), Darling, Emily S., Emily S. Darling (138580), Ateweberhan, Mebrahtu, Muthiga, Nyawira‏, Nicholas A J Graham, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan (210309), McClanahan, Tim R., Graham, Nicholas A.J.   +16 more
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Monitoring Coral Health to Determine Coral Bleaching Response at High Latitude Eastern Australian Reefs: An Applied Model for A Changing Climate

Diversity, 2011
Limited information is available on the bleaching susceptibility of coral species that dominate high latitude reefs along the eastern seaboard of Australia.
Andrew G. Carroll, Steven J. Dalton
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