Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

The influence of resilience-based management on coral reef monitoring: A systematic review

(2017) Vivian Y. Y. Lam et al.   PLoS One

On our rapidly shrinking capacity to comply with the planetary boundaries on climate change

(2017) Jean-Denis Mathias et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiple feedbacks and the prevalence of alternate stable states on coral reefs

(2016) Ingrid A. van de Leemput et al.   CORAL REEFS

The cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration

(2016) Elisa Bayraktarov et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Ocean acidification influences host DNA methylation and phenotypic plasticity in environmentally susceptible corals

(2016) Hollie M. Putnam et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Social drivers forewarn of marine regime shifts

(2016) Christina C Hicks et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Coral bleaching response index: a new tool to standardize and compare susceptibility to thermal bleaching

(2016) Timothy D. Swain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Potential for adaptation to climate change in a coral reef fish

(2016) Philip L. Munday et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Social-ecological feedbacks lead to unsustainable lock-in in an inland fishery

(2016) Sarah Laborde et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

(2016) Xuemei Bai et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

(2016) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   NATURE

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

(2016) Joeri Rogelj et al.   NATURE

The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future

(2016) Jane Lubchenco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef

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

Social norms as solutions

(2016) K. Nyborg et al.   SCIENCE

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

(2016) C. N. Waters et al.   SCIENCE

China's Degraded Environment Enters A New Normal

(2016) Ke Zhang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Trait-Based Approach to Advance Coral Reef Science

(2016) Joshua S. Madin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: progress and challenges

(2016) Patrick Christie et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Differences between carbon budget estimates unravelled

(2016) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Gene expression plasticity as a mechanism of coral adaptation to a variable environment

(2016) Carly D. Kenkel et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Warming Trends and Bleaching Stress of the World’s Coral Reefs 1985–2012

(2016) Scott F. Heron et al.   Scientific Reports

Incorporating Uncertainty in Predicting the Future Response of Coral Reefs to Climate Change

(2015) John M. Pandolfi   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Understanding and managing compliance in the nature conservation context

(2015) Adrian Arias   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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

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

Integrated conservation and development: evaluating a community-based marine protected area project for equality of socioeconomic impacts

(2015) Georgina G. Gurney et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring the difference made by conservation initiatives: protected areas and their environmental and social impacts

(2015) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

(2015) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes

(2015) G. B. Dixon et al.   SCIENCE

Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems

(2015) M. Scheffer et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

(2015) Joern Fischer et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean

(2015) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   Nature Communications

Advantages of a polycentric approach to climate change policy

(2015) Daniel H. Cole   Nature Climate Change

Multilocus Adaptation Associated with Heat Resistance in Reef-Building Corals

(2014) Rachael A. Bay et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Change in algal symbiont communities after bleaching, not prior heat exposure, increases heat tolerance of reef corals

(2014) Rachel N. Silverstein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a theory of resilience for international development applications

(2014) Christopher B. Barrett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change

(2014) S. R. Palumbi et al.   SCIENCE

Historical thermal regimes define limits to coral acclimatization

(2013) Emily J. Howells et al.   ECOLOGY

Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs

(2013) Nicholas AJ Graham et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Evidence for multiple stressor interactions and effects on coral reefs

(2013) Stephen S. Ban et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Coral reefs as novel ecosystems: embracing new futures

(2013) Nicholas AJ Graham et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems

(2012) Magnus Nyström et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Sensitivity of coral calcification to ocean acidification: a meta-analysis

(2012) Neil C. S. Chan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Small change, big difference: Sea surface temperature distributions for tropical coral reef ecosystems, 1950-2011

(2012) J. M. Lough   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Quantifying uncertainties in global and regional temperature change using an ensemble of observational estimates: The HadCRUT4 data set

(2012) Colin P. Morice et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

(2012) F. Biermann et al.   SCIENCE

Growth of Western Australian Corals in the Anthropocene

(2012) T. F. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

(2012) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs

(2012) K. Frieler et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

(2012) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century

(2011) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Regime shifts in a socio-ecological model of farmland abandonment

(2011) Joana Figueiredo et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Spatial analysis of the invasion of lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean

(2011) Matthew W. Johnston et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs

(2011) D. R. Bellwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification

(2011) J. M. Pandolfi et al.   SCIENCE

Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change

(2010) Elinor Ostrom   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Reducing bycatch in coral reef trap fisheries: escape gaps as a step towards sustainability

(2010) AE Johnson   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef: A globally significant demonstration of the benefits of networks of marine reserves

(2010) L. J. McCook et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience

(2010) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Defining and measuring ecological specialization

(2009) Vincent Devictor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions

(2009) B. Walker et al.   SCIENCE

Marine Ecosystem-based Management in Practice: Scientific and Governance Challenges

(2008) Mary Ruckelshaus et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological drivers of disease emergence

(2008) Raina K Plowright et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

ECOLOGY: Assisted Colonization and Rapid Climate Change

(2008) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs

(2008) Nancy Knowlton et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY