Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity

KL Davis, AP Colefax, JP Tucker, BP Kelaher… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term coral reef resilience to multiple stressors depends on their ability to maintain
positive calcification rates. Estimates of coral ecosystem calcification and organic …

Experimental Techniques to Assess Coral Physiology in situ Under Global and Local Stressors: Current Approaches and Novel Insights

W Dellisanti, JTH Chung, CFY Chow, J Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are declining worldwide due to global changes in the marine environment. The
increasing frequency of massive bleaching events in the tropics is highlighting the need to …

Characterizing Reef Net Metabolism Via the Diel Co‐Variation of pH and Dissolved Oxygen From High Resolution in Situ Sensors

SE Cryer, C Evans, SE Fowell… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are subject to degradation by multiple environmental stressors which are
predicted to intensify. Stress can alter ecosystem composition, with shifts from hard coral to …

Temporal and spatial variabilities of chemical and physical parameters on the Heron Island coral reef platform

SAH Kekuewa, TA Courtney, T Cyronak… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Springer
Globally, coral reefs are threatened by ocean warming and acidification. The degree to
which acidification will impact reefs is dependent on the local hydrodynamics, benthic …

Coral reef calcification and production after the 2016 bleaching event at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef

A McMahon, IR Santos, KG Schulz… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Severe coral bleaching events have affected the GBR causing massive losses of hard coral
cover. Here we use flow respirometry approaches to assess coral reef net ecosystem …

Submarine Groundwater Discharge Releases CO2 to a Coral Reef

RE Correa, MB Cardenas, RS Rodolfo… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) flows into coral reefs. In volcanically active areas,
the incoming groundwater is typically CO2-rich which can alter the carbon balance and …

Fifty years of sporadic coral reef calcification estimates at One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef: Is it enough to imply long term trends?

KL Davis, A McMahon, B Kelaher, E Shaw… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Estimates of coral reef ecosystem calcification (Gnet) and productivity (Pnet) provide insight
into coral community health and functionality in response to short-and long-term stressors …

Net heterotrophy and carbonate dissolution in two subtropical seagrass meadows

BR Van Dam, C Lopes, CL Osburn… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
The net ecosystem productivity (NEP) of two seagrass meadows within one of the largest
seagrass ecosystems in the world, Florida Bay, was assessed using direct measurements …

Temporally-variable productivity quotients on a coral atoll: implications for estimates of reef metabolism

IW Bolden, JP Sachs, AC Gagnon - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and calcification (NEC) from
contemporary coral reefs provide a baseline for monitoring the impacts of future stressors …

A Diver-Portable Respirometry System for in-situ Short-Term Measurements of Coral Metabolic Health and Rates of Calcification

W Dellisanti, RHL Tsang, P Ang Jr, J Wu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Underwater visual monitoring methods are used broadly to evaluate coral reef conditions in
the natural environment, but quantitative measurements of the coral holobiont has been …