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 …

Coral reefs in the tropical Pacific region are exposed to a range of anthropogenic local
pressures. Climate change is exacerbating local impacts, causing unprecedented declines …

In response to multiple stressors, coral reef health has declined in recent decades, with reefs
exhibiting reduced living coral and structural complexity, and a concomitant rise in the …

Herbivory is a key process on coral reefs that can facilitate reef-building corals by excluding
algae that otherwise negatively impact coral settlement, growth, and survivorship. Over 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 …

For many long‐lived taxa, such as trees and corals, older, and larger individuals often have
the lowest mortality and highest fecundity. However, climate change‐driven disturbances …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

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 …

Habitat associations underpin species ecologies in high-diversity systems. Within tropical,
shallow water coral reefs, the relationship between fishes and corals is arguably the most …

Thermal stress increases community diversity, community variability, and the abundance of
potentially pathogenic microbial taxa in the coral microbiome. Nutrient pollution, such as …