abstract Coastal ecosystems play a disproportionately large role in society, and climate
change is altering their ecological structure and function, as well as their highly valued …

Crown of thorns starfish (COTS, Acanthaster sp.) are notorious for their destructive
consumption of coral that decimates tropical reefs, an attribute unique among tropical …

Understanding the drivers of net coral reef calcium carbonate production is increasingly
important as ocean warming, acidification, and other anthropogenic stressors threaten the …

Nutrient pollution is altering coastal ecosystems worldwide. On coral reefs, excess nutrients
can favor the production of algae at the expense of reef‐building corals, yet the role of …

Tropical reefs often undergo acute disturbances that result in landscape-scale loss of coral.
Due to increasing threats to coral reefs from climate change and anthropogenic …

Coral reefs continue to experience extreme environmental pressure from climate change
stressors, but many coral reefs are also exposed to eutrophication. It has been proposed that …

Coral reefs increasingly are undergoing transitions from coral to macroalgal dominance.
Although the functional roles of reef herbivores in controlling algae are becoming better …

Ecological theory predicts that ecosystems with multiple basins of attraction can get locked
in an undesired state, which has profound ecological and management implications …

Detecting the impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbances that cause declines in
organisms or changes in community composition has long been a focus of ecology …

Herbivory is a key process on coral reefs, which, through grazing of algae, can help sustain
coral‐dominated states on frequently disturbed reefs and reverse macroalgal regime shifts …