Symbiotic immuno-suppression: is disease susceptibility the price of bleaching resistance? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Accelerating anthropogenic climate change threatens to destroy coral reefs worldwide through the processes of bleaching and disease. These major contributors to coral mortality are both closely linked with thermal stress intensified by anthropogenic ...
Daniel G. Merselis +2 more
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Reconstructing Four Centuries of Temperature-Induced Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Mass coral bleaching events during the last 20 years have caused major concern over the future of coral reefs worldwide. Despite damage to key ecosystem engineers, little is known about bleaching frequency prior to 1979 when regular modern systematic ...
Nicholas A. Kamenos +1 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Understanding interactions between spatial gradients in disturbances, species distributions and species’ resilience mechanisms is critical to identifying processes that mediate environmental change.
Chancey MacDonald +4 more
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Borneo coral reefs subject to high sediment loads show evidence of resilience to various environmental stressors [PDF]
, 2019 For reefs in South East Asia the synergistic effects of rapid land development, insufficient environmental policies and a lack of enforcement has led to poor water quality and compromised coral health from increased sediment and pollution.
Braoun, Christina +4 more
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Unprecedented mass bleaching and loss of coral across 12° of latitude in Western Australia in 2010-11. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Globally, coral bleaching has been responsible for a significant decline in both coral cover and diversity over the past two decades. During the summer of 2010-11, anomalous large-scale ocean warming induced unprecedented levels of coral ...
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The influence of extreme climate events on models of coral colony recruitment and survival in the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2012 Knowledge of coral recruitment patterns helps us understand how reefs react following major disturbances and provides us with an early warning system for predicting future reef health problems.
Crabbe, M. James C.
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Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events increase.
Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo +66 more
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Symbiont starvation affects the stability of the coral–Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Coral bleaching, the breakdown of the coral-Symbiodiniaceae association has been identified as a major cause of coral reef decline worldwide. When symbiont functions are compromised, corals receive fewer photosynthetic products from their symbionts and ...
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Coral community response to bleaching on a highly disturbed reef [PDF]
, 2016 While many studies of coral bleaching report on broad, regional scale responses, fewer examine variation in susceptibility among coral taxa and changes in community structure, before, during and after bleaching on individual reefs.
Chou, LM +13 more
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Lag effects in the impacts of mass coral bleaching on coral reef fish, fisheries, and ecosystems [PDF]
, 2007 Recent episodes of coral bleaching have led to wide-scale loss of reef corals and raised concerns over the effectiveness of existing conservation and management efforts.
Bijoux, J.P. +6 more
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