Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create
more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …

Aim The aim of this study was to understand the interplay between resistance and recovery
on coral reefs, and to investigate dependence on pre‐and post‐disturbance states, to inform …

Disturbance often results in small changes in community structure, but the probability of
transitioning to contrasting states increases when multiple disturbances combine …

Remote coral reefs are thought to be more resilient to climate change due to their isolation
from local stressors like fishing and pollution. We tested this hypothesis by measuring the …

Species loss threatens ecosystems worldwide, but the ecological processes and thresholds
that underpin positive biodiversity effects among critically important foundation species, such …

Coral reefs are declining dramatically and losing species richness, but the impact of
declining biodiversity on coral well-being remains inadequately understood. Here, we …

Major tropical storms are destructive phenomena with large effects on the community
dynamics of multiple biomes. On coral reefs, their impacts have been described for decades …

Aim Rising ocean temperatures are widely recognized as the dominant driver behind the
rapid degradation of coral reefs via the process of coral bleaching (the expulsion of …

Oceanic thermal anomalies are increasing in both frequency and strength, causing
detrimental impacts to coral reef communities. Water temperatures beyond the corals …