Abstract: Coral reefs face escalating threats from climate change, yet reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not ensure their survival. Local and regional conservation efforts are urgently needed to address immediate, human-induced stressors and build resilience. Although conservation often begins locally, the interconnected nature of reef systems that span...
Abstract: Coral reefs around the world are increasingly threatened by marine heatwaves causing widespread coral bleaching and mortality. Global analyses of projected heatwaves can inform decision-making, but forecasting the interactions between disturbance refugia, coral life histories and capacity to adapt is key for guiding strategic management of coral persistence....
Abstract: Coral reefs, among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, face an existential threat from the increasing frequency and intensity of coral bleaching events driven by global warming. While much of the existing research examines bleaching as an isolated phenomenon, the critical threshold linking bleaching rates to long-term reef...
Abstract: As the climate warms, coral reefs face more frequent and severe impacts from thermal stress while a greater proportion of tropical cyclones are expected to reach the strongest categories. Understanding the impacts of extreme cyclone waves and reef recovery dynamics is essential to support projections of reef communities...
Abstract: As coral reefs face increasingly frequent and severe disturbances, their condition relies more heavily on recovery dynamics. Understanding reef recovery is essential for assessing the long-term ecological integrity and functioning of these ecosystems. In this study, we used structurefrom-motion photogrammetry to map reefs at Peros Banhos atoll (Chagos...
Abstract: High-latitude coral communities exist in variable environmental conditions and provide an opportunity to study the response of biological communities to changing environmental conditions. A 30-year monitoring dataset, initiated in 1993, was used to investigate how biological communities have changed in relation to environmental parameters over time. During the...
Abstract: Animals support a diversity of ecological processes that are linked to the stability, condition and resilience of ecosystems. This means that metrics indexing the diversity of a food web should be linked to the delivery of these ecological processes; yet, how diversity relates to ecological functioning remains unclear...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic induced a global ‘anthropause’. By changing human patterns of movement, the microscopic pathogen behind the pandemic indirectly caused dramatic effects on wildlife. We quantified environmental and biological responses to the COVID-19-induced complete loss—and eventual return—of human visitors to Hanauma Bay in Hawai‘i, USA. We show...
Abstract: Coral reefs degradation in Thailand demands scalable, community-accessible restoration solutions. This study addresses the limitations of conventional arti cial reefs by developing 3D-printed modular arti cial reefs (3DMARs) optimized for ecological performance, usability, and low-resource deployment. Formulated through the lens of design expertise and applying a design thinking framework, the...
Abstract: Coral-reef degradation is disrupting the balance between reef accretion and erosion and threatening the persistence of essential coral-reef habitats. In south Florida, most reefs are already net eroding, and without intervention, valuable ecosystem services may be lost. Coral restoration holds the potential to reverse those trends; however, typical...
