Couce E, Ridgwell A, Hendy EJ (2012) Environmental con- trols on the global distribution of shallow-water coral reefs. J Biogeogr 39:1508-1523Couce, E., A. Ridgwell, and E. J. Hendy, 2012: Environmental controls on the global distribution of shallow-water coral reefs. Journal of ...
Aim Elucidating the environmental limits of coral reefs is central to projecting future impacts of climate change on these ecosystems and their global distribution. Recent developments in species distribution modelling (SDM) and the availability of comprehensive global environmental datasets have provided an...
Coral bleaching distribution. Prevalence of coral bleaching presented as a percentage of the coral assemblage that bleached at survey, measured at 3351 sites in 81 countries, from 1998 to 2017. White circles indicate no bleaching. Colored circles indicate 1% bleaching (blue) through 100% bleaching ...
Incorporating species’ ability to adaptively respond to climate change is critical for robustly predicting persistence. One such example could be the adaptive role of algal symbionts in setting coral thermal tolerance under global warming and ocean acid
Global Distribution of Warm-Water Coral Reefs, Compiled from Multiple Sources Including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 4.1. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001); UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre: ...
Light Limitation of Poleward Coral Reef Expansion During Past Warm Climates, Kruijt et al., Geophysical Research Letters: The latitudinal range of modern shallow-water tropical corals is controlled by temperature, and presently limited to waters warmer than 16–18°C year-round. However, even durin...
The Little Ice Age was preceded by a period of relatively mild conditions in northern and central Europe. This interval, known as theMedieval Warm Period, occurred from approximatelyad1000 to the first half of the 13th century. Mild summers and winters led to good harvests in much of Europe....
Recent warm temperatures driven by climate change have caused mass coral bleaching and mortality across the world, prompting managers, policymakers, and conservation practitioners to embrace restoration as a strategy to sustain coral reefs. Despite a proliferation of new coral reef restoration efforts glo...
Bleaching was not documented again in South Africa until 2005, when the bleaching response index across all hard coral taxa was as high as 40 during a warm-water anomaly in the southern Indian Ocean [23]. Montipora spp. were again found to show some of the highest incidences of bleaching...
For example, the warming of the region of the North Atlantic Ocean just south ofGreenlandis expected to be slight. This anomaly is projected to arise from a weakening of warm northward ocean currents combined with a shift in thejet streamthat will bring colder polar air masses to the region...