Abstract: The global decline of reef-building corals is understood to be due to a combination of local and global stressors. However, many reef scientists assume that local factors predominate and that isolated reefs, far from human activities, are generally healthier and more resilient. Here we show that coral reef...
Abstract A number of factors have recently caused mass coral mortality events in all of the world’s tropical oceans. However, little is known about the timing, rate or spatial variability of the loss of reef-building corals, especially in the IndoPacific, which contains 75% of the world’s coral reefs. Methodology/Principle...
Abstract: Very little is known about how environmental changes such as increasing temperature affect disease dynamics in the ocean, especially at large spatial scales. We asked whether the frequency of warm temperature anomalies is positively related to the frequency of coral disease across 1,500 km of Australia’s Great Barrier...
