Highlights•Nutrient enrichment negatively affects coral physiology and ecosystem functioning.•Integrative model of reef survival in dependence of direct and indirect nutrient …
Degradation of coastal water quality in the form of low dissolved oxygen levels (hypoxia) can harm biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human wellbeing. Extreme hypoxic conditions …
Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to threaten marine ecosystems globally. However, current and future oxygen concentrations and the occurrence of hypoxic events on coral reefs …
JH Landsberg - Reviews in fisheries science, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This review provides an in-depth survey of the recorded incidences in aquatic organisms of mortality and disease events suspected or known to be caused by microalgal or ciliate …
Coral reef bleaching, the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa, results from the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in …
ML Richlen, SL Morton, EA Jamali, A Rajan… - Harmful algae, 2010 - Elsevier
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) caused by the marine ichthyotoxic dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef are responsible for mass mortalities of wild and …
RH Richmond - American Zoologist, 1993 - academic.oup.com
Coral reefs, with their vast diversity of invertebrate, vertebrate and algal species, have undoubtedly been subjected to natural disturbance since their appearance millions of years …
Coral reefs are suffering unprecedented declines worldwide. Most studies focus on stressors such as rising temperatures, nutrient pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification as …
New information on the presence and relative abundances of 41 reef-building (zooxanthellate) coral species at 11 eastern Pacific and 3 central Pacific localities is …