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 …

Ecological change in dynamic environments: Accounting for temporal environmental variability in studies of ocean change biology

KJ Kroeker, LE Bell, EM Donham… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The environmental conditions in the ocean have long been considered relatively more
stable through time compared to the conditions on land. Advances in sensing technologies …

Coral reefs will transition to net dissolving before end of century

BD Eyre, T Cyronak, P Drupp, EH De Carlo, JP Sachs… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Ocean acidification refers to the lowering of the ocean's pH due to the uptake of
anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. Coral reef calcification is expected to decrease as …

Ocean acidification refugia in variable environments

L Kapsenberg, T Cyronak - Global Change Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change refugia in the terrestrial biosphere are areas where species are protected
from global environmental change and arise from natural heterogeneity in landscapes and …

Rapid thermal adaptation in photosymbionts of reef‐building corals

LJ Chakravarti, VH Beltran… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is occurring at a rate not experienced by life on Earth for 10 s of millions of
years, and it is unknown whether the coral‐dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium spp.) symbiosis …

Mechanisms of thermal tolerance in reef-building corals across a fine-grained environmental mosaic: lessons from Ofu, American Samoa

L Thomas, NH Rose, RA Bay, EH López… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environmental heterogeneity gives rise to phenotypic variation through a combination of
phenotypic plasticity and fixed genetic effects. For reef-building corals, understanding the …

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 …

Reef-building corals thrive within hot-acidified and deoxygenated waters

EF Camp, MR Nitschke, R Rodolfo-Metalpa… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Coral reefs are deteriorating under climate change as oceans continue to warm and acidify
and thermal anomalies grow in frequency and intensity. In vitro experiments are widely used …

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 …

Ocean pH time‐series and drivers of variability along the northern C hannel I slands, C alifornia, USA

L Kapsenberg, GE Hofmann - Limnology and Oceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Eastern boundary current systems (EBCSs) experience dynamic fluctuations in seawater pH
due to coastal upwelling and primary production. The lack of high‐resolution pH …