Reef coral survival and mortality at low temperatures in the Arabian Gulf: new species-specific lower temperature limits

By S. Coles, Y. H. Fadlallah. Coral reefs, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Effects of the 1996 and 1998 positive sea-surface temperature anomalies on corals, coral diseases and fish in the Arabian Gulf (Dubai, UAE) (2002, background): “Worldwide, Acropora appear to be among the first corals to experience heavy losses in times of crisis ( Coles and Fadlallah 1991; Gleason 1993; Wilkinson 1998; Marshall and Baird 2000) and in some areas are in serious decline (Aronson and Precht 1997).”
Vertical zonation of megabenthic taxa on a deep photosynthetic reef (50–140 m) in the Au’au Channel, Hawaii (2007, background): “Given a suYcient duration of exposure, such temperatures are almost certain to cause severe coral mortality (Coles and Fadlallah 1991).”
Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (2010, background): “In general, temperatures below 15–16 C are considered the long-term lower limit for reef coral survival (Coles and Fadlallah 1991).”
Cold-water event of January 2010 results in catastrophic benthic mortality on patch reefs in the Florida Keys (2012, background): “Cold-water-induced stress and mortality are important determinants of community structure for coral reef ecosystems (Glynn and Stewart 1973; Glynn 1976; Coles and Fadlallah 1991; Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2005).”
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook (2008, background): “Bleaching and mortality due to low temperatures has long been known (Coles and Jokiel, 1977; Glynn and D’Croz, 1990; Coles and Fadlallah, 1991), but it has only recently been shown that cold stress, like heat stress, leads to bleaching by impairing the function of Photosystem II (Saxby et al.,…”
Recovery of corals a decade after a bleaching event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2008, background): “Coral patch reefs in the Saih Al - Shaib area exhibit both resistance and resilience to the impacts of high SSTs , and are among the richest assemblages in the Arabian Gulf ( Riegl 1999 ; Coles 2003 ) .”
Clade D Symbiodinium in Scleractinian Corals: A “Nugget” of Hope, a Selfish Opportunist, an Ominous Sign, or All of the Above? (2011, background): “This region also experiences high salinities (up to 40 ppt) and water temperatures as cool as 14◦C [53, 54].”
The Adaptive Hypothesis of Bleaching (2004, background): “Corals and reef communities in some areas (such as the Arabian Gulf) tolerate salinity and temperature conditions that are lethal when imposed rapidly on the same species in less extreme environments (Coles 1988, Sheppard 1988, Coles and Fadlallah 1991, Jokiel this volume).”
Model of coral population response to accelerated bleaching and mass mortality in a changing climate (2009, background): “If we accept as premise that either unusual cold (Coles and Fadlallah, 1991) or hot events (George and John, 1999; Riegl, 1999; Purkis and Riegl, 2005) cause mass mortality, then no direction for evolutionary change towards either hot- or cold-adaptation should be expected.”