Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

By Terry P. Hughes, Michele L. Barnes, D. Bellwood, J. Cinner, Graeme Cumming, J. Jackson, J. Kleypas, I. A. Leemput, J. Lough, T. Morrison and 3 more. Nature, 2017

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Rebuilding marine life (2020, positive): “Our growing knowledge of ecological processes in coral reefs provides opportunities to catalyse recovery by reducing multiple pressures while repairing key processes, including herbivory and larval recruitment 11,111 .”
The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C (2019, background): “0°C, large-scalemortality events driven by lengthening marine heatwaves have already reduced coral populations in many places (5), with prominent coral reef ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef in Australia losing as much as 50% of their shallow-water corals in the past 4 years alone (5, 23, 24”
Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures (2021, background): “…the manuscript and approved the final version of the paper. heating (Leggat et al. 2019), compared to previously described bleaching events that yielded more distinct succession of coral bleaching and eventual recovery or mortality over multiple weeks (Marshall and Baird 2000; Hughes et al. 2017b).”
Mechanisms of Thermal Tolerance in Reef-Building Corals across a Fine-Grained Environmental Mosaic: Lessons from Ofu, American Samoa (2018, background): “Bleaching sparked by an increase of ocean water temperature has triggered widespread coral mortality over the past decades, including global die-offs in the recent 2015, 2016, and 2017 El Niño years (Hughes et al., 2017).”
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points (2022, positive): “Tropical and subtropical coral reefs are threatened by anthropogenic pressures including overfishing, direct damage, sedimentation, ocean acidification, and global warming ( 92 ).”
Meta-Analysis Reveals Artificial Reefs Can Be Effective Tools for Fish Community Enhancement but Are Not One-Size-Fits-All (2020, background): “Even when reefs are not actively facing degradation, the value of ecosystem services that reefs provide (Hughes et al., 2017; Townsend and Lohrer, 2019) often prompt managers to enhance the existing reefs (Seaman, 2007; Becker et al.”
Everyone Loves a Success Story: Optimism Inspires Conservation Engagement (2019, background): “2008) and that many are in irreversible decline (Hughes 2017).”
Morphological traits can track coral reef responses to the Anthropocene (2019, background): “…providing habitat for a large number and diversity of organisms (Bell & Galzin, 1984; Jones & Syms, 1998), yet they are also increasingly affected by human activity (Hughes et al., 2017; Norström et al., 2016), through exposure to a broad range of novel ecosystem drivers (Williams et al., 2019).”
The meaning of the term ‘function’ in ecology: A coral reef perspective (2018, background): “2017; Hughes et al. 2017a) and it 296 is increasingly apparent that many severe disturbance events are at regional or global scales 297 (Bruno & Valdivia 2016; Hughes et al. 2017b).”
Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “Since then, our understanding of reef structures and functions in the context of environmental change has increased, whilst reef condition has continued to decline (Hughes et al., 2017).”
Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “…no exception; they face a new reality with their dynamics governed by cross‐scale interacting biophysical and human socioeconomic and cultural drivers (Hughes et al., 2017; Norström et al., 2016; Figure 2) and we question whether traditional coral reef paradigms accurately capture this complexity.”
Acoustic fish communities: sound diversity of rocky habitats reflects fish species diversity (2019, background): “…signal processing tools, and UVC surveys increases the comprehensiveness about fish diversity and can therefore have major implications for conservation, particularly considering the biodiversity changes and losses that many marine habitats are facing (Hughes et al. 2017, Schluter & Pennell 2017).”