Corals and their microbiomes are differentially affected by exposure to elevated nutrients and a natural thermal anomaly

L Wang, AA Shantz, JP Payet, TJ Sharpton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Nutrient pollution can increase the prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching
in ambient temperature conditions or during experimental thermal challenge. However …

Nitrogen pollution interacts with heat stress to increase coral bleaching across the seascape

MK Donovan, TC Adam, AA Shantz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is increasing the frequency and magnitude of temperature anomalies that
cause coral bleaching, leading to widespread mortality of stony corals that can …

Consistent responses of coral microbiome to acute and chronic heat stress exposures

W Zhu, H Wang, X Li, X Liu, M Zhu, A Wang… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Frequent and intense heat waves lead to bleaching and even death of reef-building corals,
and the thermal tolerance ultimately depends on the genetic composition of the holobiont …

Coral microbiome diversity reflects mass coral bleaching susceptibility during the 2016 El Niño heat wave

SG Gardner, EF Camp, DJ Smith, T Kahlke… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Repeat marine heat wave‐induced mass coral bleaching has decimated reefs in Seychelles
for 35 years, but how coral‐associated microbial diversity (microalgal endosymbionts of the …

Predicting cold-water bleaching in corals: role of temperature, and potential integration of light exposure

PC González-Espinosa, SD Donner - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2020 - int-res.com
Warm-water growth and survival of corals are constrained by a set of environmental
conditions such as temperature, light, nutrient levels and salinity. Water temperatures of 1 to …

A decline in bleaching suggests that depth can provide a refuge from global warming in most coral taxa

AH Baird, JS Madin, M Álvarez-Noriega… - Marine Ecology …, 2018 - int-res.com
Coral reefs are under increasing threat from increasing warm temperature stress. Coral
bleaching is caused by a combination of heat and light anomalies and therefore fewer corals …

Unravelling the links between heat stress, bleaching and disease: fate of tabular corals following a combined disease and bleaching event

OB Brodnicke, DG Bourne, SF Heron, RJ Pears… - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
While links between heat stress and coral bleaching are clear and predictive tools for
bleaching risk are well advanced, links between heat stress and outbreaks of coral diseases …

Nitrogen identity drives differential impacts of nutrients on coral bleaching and mortality

DE Burkepile, AA Shantz, TC Adam, KS Munsterman… - Ecosystems, 2020 - Springer
Nitrogen pollution increases the susceptibility of corals to heat-induced bleaching. However,
different forms of nitrogen (nitrate vs. ammonium/urea) may have different impacts on …

[HTML][HTML] Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales

JR Zaneveld, DE Burkepile, AA Shantz… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Losses of corals worldwide emphasize the need to understand what drives reef decline.
Stressors such as overfishing and nutrient pollution may reduce resilience of coral reefs by …

Successive marine heatwaves cause disproportionate coral bleaching during a fast phase transition from El Niño to La Niña

SJ Dalton, AG Carroll, E Sampayo, G Roff… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves that result in coral bleaching events have
increased over recent decades and led to catastrophic losses of reef-building corals in many …