Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …
How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …
Stony corals are colonial cnidarians that sustain the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on Earth: coral reefs. Despite their ecological importance, little is known about the cell types …
Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms, some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …
Marine organisms' persistence hinges on the capacity for acclimatization and adaptation to the myriad of interacting environmental stressors associated with global climate change. In …
Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems …
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical, subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …