Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

By Terry P. Hughes, J. T. Kerry, Mariana Álvarez‐Noriega, J. Álvarez-Romero, K. Anderson, Andrew H. Baird, R. Babcock, Marie Beger, D. Bellwood, R. Berkelmans and 36 more. Nature, 2017

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Marine Animal Microbiomes: Toward Understanding Host–Microbiome Interactions in a Changing Ocean (2017, background): “Given the recent mass bleaching occurring on reefs (Hughes et al., 2017), corals will likely continue to be a useful and popular system for symbiosis and dysbiosis research.”
• Symbiodinium Functional Diversity in the Coral Siderastrea siderea Is Influenced by Thermal Stress and Reef Environment, but Not Ocean Acidification (2018, background): “Bleaching events have been recognized as the primary driver of recent global coral reef degradation and have been increasing in frequency and severity over the past century (Pandolfi et al., 2011; Hughes et al., 2017).”
• 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).”
• Nearshore Turbid-Zone Corals Exhibit High Bleaching Tolerance on the Great Barrier Reef Following the 2016 Ocean Warming Event (2017, background): “During the late austral summer (February-June 2016) SSTs on the central and northern GBR (including coastal areas nearby to Paluma Shoals) were the highest on record, with 31% of reefs experiencing 8–16◦ HeatingWeeks (DHWs) (Hughes et al., 2017; see Supplementary Figure S2).”
• Coral restoration – A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions (2020, background): “This was emphasised during the recent 2016–17 global marine heat wave, which led to the most extensive coral bleaching event in history, including remote and pristine reefs [9,10].”