Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

By Terry P. Hughes, J. T. Kerry, Andrew H. Baird, Sean R. Connolly, A. Dietzel, C. M. Eakin, S F Heron, A. Hoey, M. Hoogenboom, Gang Liu and 6 more. Nature, 2018

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Reconstructing hyperdiverse food webs: Gut content metabarcoding as a tool to disentangle trophic interactions on coral reefs (2019, background): “Coral reefs harbour one‐third of marine species, but increasingly frequent and intense anthropogenically driven disturbances such as coral bleaching, acidification, storms and overfishing are now fundamentally changing coral reef communities world‐wide (Hughes et al., 2018).”
Changing geo‐ecological functions of coral reefs in the Anthropocene (2018, background): “…shift away from the dominance of morphologically complex coral species, to assemblages dominated by taxa with simpler morphological characteristics and slower growth rates, resulting in rapid loss of coral community‐scale complexity (e.g., Perry & Morgan, 2017a; Hughes et al., 2018; Figure 3b).”
Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “Stressors include marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, over‐fishing, pollution and physical damage, which each interacts and selects for different response traits within the coral assemblage (Ban, Graham, & Connolly, 2014; Hughes et al., 2018).”
Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “…the ocean is resulting in in - creasingly frequent mass coral bleaching events (Hughes, Anderson et al., 2018a) that are transforming coral assemblages (Hughes, Kerry et al., 2018b) and in some cases causing regime shifts to fleshy macroalgae (Graham, Jennings, MacNeil, Mouillot, & Wilson, 2015).”
Coral restoration – A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions (2020, background): “While dynamic systems like coral reefs have an innate capacity for natural recovery [11,12], the frequency, intensity and severity of mass coral bleaching and extreme weather events is increasing [13,14], diminishing the time and capacity for recovery between catastrophic events [15].”