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 …

Avenues of reef-building coral acclimatization in response to rapid environmental change

HM Putnam - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The swiftly changing climate presents a challenge to organismal fitness by creating a
mismatch between the current environment and phenotypes adapted to historic conditions …

Impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms: quantifying sensitivities and interaction with warming

KJ Kroeker, RL Kordas, R Crim… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification represents a threat to marine species worldwide, and forecasting the
ecological impacts of acidification is a high priority for science, management, and policy. As …

Is ocean acidification an open-ocean syndrome? Understanding anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH

CM Duarte, IE Hendriks, TS Moore, YS Olsen… - Estuaries and …, 2013 - Springer
Ocean acidification due to anthropogenic CO 2 emissions is a dominant driver of long-term
changes in pH in the open ocean, raising concern for the future of calcifying organisms …

Could some coral reefs become sponge reefs as our climate changes?

JJ Bell, SK Davy, T Jones, MW Taylor… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs across the world have been seriously degraded and have a bleak future in
response to predicted global warming and ocean acidification (OA). However, this is not the …

Global microbialization of coral reefs

AF Haas, MFM Fairoz, LW Kelly, CE Nelson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Microbialization refers to the observed shift in ecosystem trophic structure towards higher
microbial biomass and energy use. On coral reefs, the proximal causes of microbialization …

Carbon dioxide addition to coral reef waters suppresses net community calcification

R Albright, Y Takeshita, DA Koweek, A Ninokawa… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Coral reefs feed millions of people worldwide, provide coastal protection and generate
billions of dollars annually in tourism revenue. The underlying architecture of a reef is a …

Pervasiveness of biological impacts of artificial light at night

KJ Gaston, S Ackermann, J Bennie… - Integrative and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Artificial light at night (ALAN) and its associated biological impacts have regularly been
characterized as predominantly urban issues. Although far from trivial, this would imply that …

Macroalgae may mitigate ocean acidification effects on mussel calcification by increasing pH and its fluctuations

M Wahl, S Schneider Covachã… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean acidification (OA) is generally assumed to negatively impact calcification rates of
marine organisms. At a local scale however, biological activity of macrophytes may generate …

Diel temperature and pH variability scale with depth across diverse coral reef habitats

T Cyronak, Y Takeshita, TA Courtney… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are facing intensifying stressors, largely due to global increases in seawater
temperature and decreases in pH. However, there is extensive environmental variability …