The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

Biological responses to environmental heterogeneity under future ocean conditions

PW Boyd, CE Cornwall, A Davison… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms are projected to face unprecedented rates of change in future ocean conditions
due to anthropogenic climate‐change. At present, marine life encounters a wide range of …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic

IB Baums, AC Baker, SW Davies… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

Taking the metabolic pulse of the world's coral reefs

T Cyronak, AJ Andersson, C Langdon, R Albright… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Worldwide, coral reef ecosystems are experiencing increasing pressure from a variety of
anthropogenic perturbations including ocean warming and acidification, increased …

Resistance of corals and coralline algae to ocean acidification: physiological control of calcification under natural pH variability

CE Cornwall, S Comeau… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ocean acidification is a threat to the continued accretion of coral reefs, though some
undergo daily fluctuations in pH exceeding declines predicted by 2100. We test whether …

The role of natural variability in shaping the response of coral reef organisms to climate change

EB Rivest, S Comeau, CE Cornwall - Current Climate Change Reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We investigate whether regimes of greater daily variability in
temperature or pH result in greater tolerance to ocean warming and acidification in key reef …

How good are we at assessing the impact of ocean acidification in coastal systems? Limitations, omissions and strengths of commonly used experimental approaches …

M Wahl, V Saderne, Y Sawall - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Much of our past research on ocean acidification has focussed on direct responses to pCO2
increase at the (sub-) organism level, but does not produce findings that can be projected …

Resilience of tropical ecosystems to ocean deoxygenation

AH Altieri, MD Johnson, SD Swaminathan… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
The impacts of ocean deoxygenation on biodiversity and ecosystem function are well
established in temperate regions, and here we illustrate how the study of hypoxia in tropical …

Integrating environmental variability to broaden the research on coral responses to future ocean conditions

M Ziegler, A Anton, SG Klein, N Rädecker… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the response of reef‐building corals to changes in their physical
environment is largely based on laboratory experiments, analysis of long‐term field data …