The state of Western Australia’s coral reefs

Three decades of degradation lead to diminished impacts of severe hurricanes on Caribbean reefs

(2019) Peter J. Edmunds   ECOLOGY

Physical mechanisms influencing localized patterns of temperature variability and coral bleaching within a system of reef atolls

(2019) Rebecca H. Green et al.   CORAL REEFS

Gradients of disturbance and environmental conditions shape coral community structure for south-eastern Indian Ocean reefs

(2018) Jens Zinke et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Visual versus video methods for estimating reef fish biomass

(2018) S.K. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The effects of environmental history and thermal stress on coral physiology and immunity

(2018) Christopher B. Wall et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Genetic signatures through space, time and multiple disturbances in a ubiquitous brooding coral

(2018) Jim N. Underwood et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Keeping up with sea-level rise: Carbonate production rates in Palau and Yap, western Pacific Ocean

(2018) Robert van Woesik et al.   PLoS One

Coral reefs will transition to net dissolving before end of century

(2018) Bradley D. Eyre et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching

(2018) Aryan Safaie et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas

(2018) John F. Bruno et al.   Nature Climate Change

A marine heatwave drives massive losses from the world’s largest seagrass carbon stocks

(2018) A. Arias-Ortiz et al.   Nature Climate Change

Extreme Marine Warming Across Tropical Australia During Austral Summer 2015-2016

(2018) Jessica A. Benthuysen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Decadal erosion of coral assemblages by multiple disturbances in the Palm Islands, central Great Barrier Reef

(2018) Gergely Torda et al.   Scientific Reports

Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses

(2018) Katinka X. Ruthrof et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence of acclimatization or adaptation in Hawaiian corals to higher ocean temperatures

(2018) Steve L. Coles et al.   PeerJ

The threat to coral reefs from more intense cyclones under climate change

(2017) Alistair J. Cheal et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid thermal adaptation in photosymbionts of reef-building corals

(2017) Leela J. Chakravarti et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in coral sensitivity to thermal anomalies

(2017) TR McClanahan   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave

(2017) Eric C. J. Oliver et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

(2017) Gergely Torda et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes in coral sensitivity to thermal anomalies

(2017) TR McClanahan   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Marine heatwave causes unprecedented regional mass bleaching of thermally resistant corals in northwestern Australia

(2017) Morane Le Nohaïc et al.   Scientific Reports

Coral Reefs Under Climate Change and Ocean Acidification: Challenges and Opportunities for Management and Policy

(2016) Kenneth R.N. Anthony   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities

(2016) Camille Mellin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ocean circulation drives heterogeneous recruitments and connectivity among coral populations on the North West Shelf of Australia

(2016) Ming Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Coral bleaching in turbid waters of north-western Australia

(2016) A. Lafratta et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Temporal patterns of coral cover in the offshore Pilbara, Western Australia

(2016) T. Ridgway et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Assessing the impacts of sediments from dredging on corals

(2016) Ross Jones et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

(2016) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   NATURE

Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef

(2016) T. D. Ainsworth et al.   SCIENCE

Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

(2016) T. Wernberg et al.   SCIENCE

Coral reproduction in Western Australia

(2016) James Gilmour et al.   PeerJ

A robust operational model for predicting where tropical cyclone waves damage coral reefs

(2016) Marji Puotinen et al.   Scientific Reports

The influence of spawning periodicity on population connectivity

(2015) Andrew S. Kough et al.   CORAL REEFS

Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes

(2015) M. Aaron MacNeil et al.   NATURE

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

(2015) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Selective Impact of Disease on Coral Communities: Outbreak of White Syndrome Causes Significant Total Mortality of Acropora Plate Corals

(2015) Jean-Paul A. Hobbs et al.   PLoS One

Limited scope for latitudinal extension of reef corals

(2015) P. R. Muir et al.   SCIENCE

Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence

(2015) Jeffrey Maynard et al.   Nature Climate Change

Limits to the thermal tolerance of corals adapted to a highly fluctuating, naturally extreme temperature environment

(2015) Verena Schoepf et al.   Scientific Reports

Patterns and Emerging Trends in Global Ocean Health

(2015) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   PLoS One

Spatial Patterns in Water Quality Changes during Dredging in Tropical Environments

(2015) Rebecca Fisher et al.   PLoS One

Integrating connectivity and climate change into marine conservation planning

(2014) Rafael A. Magris et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Contrasting rates of coral recovery and reassembly in coral communities on the Great Barrier Reef

(2014) K. A. Johns et al.   CORAL REEFS

Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 550–1,500 years

(2014) Jordahna Haig et al.   NATURE

Sediment and Turbidity Associated with Offshore Dredging Increase Coral Disease Prevalence on Nearby Reefs

(2014) F. Joseph Pollock et al.   PLoS One

Persistence and Change in Community Composition of Reef Corals through Present, Past, and Future Climates

(2014) Peter J. Edmunds et al.   PLoS One

Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change

(2014) S. R. Palumbi et al.   SCIENCE

Acanthaster planci is a major cause of coral mortality in Indonesia

(2013) A. H. Baird et al.   CORAL REEFS

Beyond connectivity: how empirical methods can quantify population persistence to improve marine protected-area design

(2013) Scott C. Burgess et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Integrating connectivity science and spatial conservation management of coral reefs in north-west Australia

(2013) Jim N. Underwood et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Dynamic Stability of Coral Reefs on the West Australian Coast

(2013) Conrad W. Speed et al.   PLoS One

Changes in Bleaching Susceptibility among Corals Subject to Ocean Warming and Recurrent Bleaching in Moorea, French Polynesia

(2013) Morgan S. Pratchett et al.   PLoS One

Recovery of an Isolated Coral Reef System Following Severe Disturbance

(2013) J. P. Gilmour et al.   SCIENCE

Reef degradation and the loss of critical ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reef fishes

(2013) Morgan S Pratchett et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Human deforestation outweighs future climate change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs

(2013) Joseph Maina et al.   Nature Communications

Bleaching, coral mortality and subsequent survivorship on a West Australian fringing reef

(2012) M. Depczynski et al.   CORAL REEFS

Turning up the Heat: Increasing Temperature and Coral Bleaching at the High Latitude Coral Reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands

(2012) David A. Abdo et al.   PLoS One

Unprecedented Mass Bleaching and Loss of Coral across 12° of Latitude in Western Australia in 2010–11

(2012) James A. Y. Moore et al.   PLoS One

The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes

(2012) G. De'ath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coral reef recovery dynamics in a changing world

(2011) N. A. J. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

High latitude, deeper water coral bleaching at Rottnest Island, Western Australia

(2011) D. P. Thomson et al.   CORAL REEFS

Assessing the potential for tropical cyclone induced sea surface cooling to reduce thermal stress on the world's coral reefs

(2011) A. D. Carrigan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Vulnerability of coastal communities to key impacts of climate change on coral reef fisheries

(2011) J.E. Cinner et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Rapid increase in coral cover on an isolated coral reef, the Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve, north-western Australia

(2011) D. M. Ceccarelli et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Revisiting the winners and the losers a decade after coral bleaching

(2011) R van Woesik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Global Gradients of Coral Exposure to Environmental Stresses and Implications for Local Management

(2011) Joseph Maina et al.   PLoS One

Changes in coral assemblages during an outbreak of Acanthaster planci at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (1995–1999)

(2010) M. S. Pratchett   CORAL REEFS

Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

(2010) M. A. MacNeil et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coral bleaching: one disturbance too many for near-shore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef

(2009) A. A. Thompson et al.   CORAL REEFS

Ecologically relevant dispersal of corals on isolated reefs: implications for managing resilience

(2009) Jim N. Underwood et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biannual spawning, rapid larval development and evidence of self-seeding for scleractinian corals at an isolated system of reefs

(2009) James P. Gilmour et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef: Climate Change, Algal Overgrowth and Coral Recovery

(2009) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido et al.   PLoS One

Should We Protect the Strong or the Weak? Risk, Resilience, and the Selection of Marine Protected Areas

(2008) EDWARD T. GAME et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia

(2008) BENJAMIN J. GREENSTEIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building corals to thermal stress

(2008) R. Middlebrook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts

(2008) K. E. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE