Coral Reefs最新文献

{"title":"Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure.","authors":"Cheryl Hankins, Danielle Lasseigne, Sarah M Davis, Kimberly Edwards, Jenny S Paul","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02596-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00338-024-02596-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coral reef declines have been documented since the 1980's from a variety of global and local stressors. Management resource tools are needed to preserve these fragile ecosystems from stressors, both known and unknown. Laboratory studies have shown microplastics (MP) to have negative effects on coral physiology, but their effects in a natural environment are not well understood. Thus, our primary objectives were to explore associations between MPs and coral reef attributes. We measured MP concentrations from sub-surface water and coral tissue samples from two Caribbean/Atlantic scleractinian coral species, <i>Montastraea cavernosa</i> and <i>Orbicella faveolata</i>, from St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida's Coral Reef in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Polymer identification yielded mostly cotton or polyester fibers for both water and coral tissue samples. This study is the first to document MPs in coral tissues from either the U.S. Virgin Islands or Florida's Coral Reef and is the first to explore how MPs relate to coral reef attributes. Significant, positive relationships were seen between MPs in coral tissue and coral density, rugosity, and percent coral cover, indicating MPs may not have immediate adverse effects on coral reef health.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"44 1","pages":"193-207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12180944/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144368645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergent coral reef patterning via spatial self-organization.","authors":"Haiwei Xi, Xiaoli Dong, Ved Chirayath, Arthur C R Gleason, Sam J Purkis","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02603-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00338-024-02603-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regularly patterned reef ridges develop in the lagoons of at least one-third of Earth's coral reefs. The interactions between corals and their environment, occurring at scales from millimeters to meters, can lead to self-organized spatial patterns spanning hundreds of meters to kilometers. To understand the mechanism behind pattern formation, we first characterize these spatial patterns using satellite imagery from 63 sites across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Next, we develop a generalized Turing morphogenesis model. Corroborated by observed spatial patterns, results from our numerical model suggest that patterned ridges develop through a four-phase trajectory, dictated by changes in the lagoon's hydrodynamic regime. Initially, after an atoll lagoon forms, the first colonizing reefs establish as isolated pinnacles. These pinnacles then evolve into low-relief ridges and eventually form semi-enclosed inter-ridge ponds. In the terminal phase, a dense interconnected, branching, and rejoining (\"anastomosing\") pattern of reef ridges develop into a network, fully enclosing the ponds. Once enclosed, wind- and tide-induced currents are significantly reduced. Since corals rely on flow for feeding and shedding metabolites, ridge development stalls, and the pattern stabilizes. By combining empirical observations from around the world with a theoretical model, our study reveals the mechanism of reef pattern formation. Such a mechanistic understanding enables the use of emergent reef patterns to identify reef stress at the coral colony scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"44 1","pages":"273-289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11799040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the role of moonlight-darkness dynamics as proximate spawning cues in an <i>Acropora</i> coral.","authors":"Rubén de la Torre Cerro, Elizabeth Beauchamp, Daisy Buzzoni, Jamie Craggs, Holly East, Alasdair Edwards, Yimnang Golbuu, Adriana Humanes, Liam Lachs, Helios Martínez, Aileen Mill, Eveline van der Steeg, Alex Ward, James R Guest","doi":"10.1007/s00338-025-02618-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00338-025-02618-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For sessile broadcast spawning marine invertebrates, such as corals, successful sexual reproduction depends on conspecifics spawning synchronously. The precise monthly, lunar, and diel timing and the extent of synchrony, i.e., proportion of population reproducing at the same time, are likely to play a key role in coral population recovery, persistence, and adaptation. Despite its importance, the mechanisms by which different environmental factors trigger corals to spawn on specific dates within the lunar cycle remain poorly understood. Periods of darkness post-sunset around full moon of the spawning month have been shown to induce spawning in merulinid corals, whereas for <i>Acropora,</i> moonlight is considered the main determinant driver of night of spawning. Here, we conducted two manipulative field experiments around full moon in Palau using the common table coral <i>Acropora</i> aff. <i>hyacinthus</i> to disentangle the role of moonlight and darkness post-sunset as proximate cues. Coral fragments were assigned to three treatments providing different post-sunset darkness conditions, versus control and procedural control fragments exposed to natural conditions. In contrast to previous studies on <i>Acropora</i>, we found that <i>Acropora</i> aff. <i>hyacinthus</i> can spawn synchronously in the absence of moonlight during the nights leading to spawning. Corals exposed to darkness post-sunset for at least two to three consecutive nights advanced their spawning compared to controls. This finding indicates that periods of darkness post-sunset can act as an inducer for spawning in <i>Acropora</i> as well as in merulinid corals, suggesting that this mechanism may be more widespread than previously thought.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00338-025-02618-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"44 2","pages":"501-512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11950126/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grazing deterrents improve survival of outplanted juvenile corals.","authors":"Eveline van der Steeg, Adriana Humanes, John C Bythell, Jamie R Craggs, Alasdair J Edwards, Yimnang Golbuu, Liam Lachs, Margaret W Miller, Janna L Randle, James R Guest","doi":"10.1007/s00338-025-02703-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00338-025-02703-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High mortality of juvenile corals hinder both the natural recovery of populations and the successful implementation of restoration efforts. Grazing is a significant cause of juvenile coral mortality, and grazer exclusion devices have been shown to increase juvenile coral survivorship. However, most experiments have used cages that typically alter water flow and light conditions, making it difficult to separate abiotic effects from those of grazing. Here, we test whether grazing deterrents can increase the survival and growth of six-month-old <i>Acropora digitifera</i> juveniles outplanted to a shallow reef crest, using arrangements of two or four long or short masonry nails designed to physically exclude larger grazers (e.g., parrotfish) while minimising abiotic changes. By the end of our study, colonies with deterrents had significantly larger planar area (almost tenfold for the most effective treatment), more branches, greater height, and higher survival than those without deterrents. A critical period in this study was the first week after outplanting when colonies with deterrents had significantly less tissue area loss from grazing than those without. Lower area loss in the first week was associated with significantly higher survival over the following 14 months, with an almost threefold improvement for the most effective treatment. For heavily grazed systems, our study highlights the importance of incorporating grazing deterrents into outplant devices to counteract the negative impact of large grazers on newly outplanted juvenile corals and boost restoration success.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00338-025-02703-z.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"44 4","pages":"1389-1401"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12304057/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144752640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea","authors":"Lachan Roth, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02565-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02565-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scleractinian corals, the principal architects of coral reefs, face substantial threats from ongoing and anticipated climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances. This underscores the significance of investigating alternative reef-building organisms and their contribution to reefs’ resilience. Among these alternatives, colonial hydrozoans of the genus <i>Millepora</i>, commonly called ‘fire corals’, play substantial roles in contributing to coral reef structure and functionality by depositing calcareous exoskeletons. Despite the ecological importance of fire corals, fundamental knowledge gaps remain regarding their biology and reproductive ecology. Here, we present a comprehensive study on the population dynamics, reproductive ecology, phenology, and sex ratio of the three Red Sea fire corals—<i>Millepora dichotoma, M. exaesa</i>, and <i>M. platyphylla—</i>in the Gulf of Aqaba and Eilat. The abundance of <i>M. dichotoma</i> and <i>M. exaesa</i> seems to have remained consistent over the last 50 years across two of the three depth zones surveyed, indicating their potential resistance or resilience. However, at the third depth surveyed, their abundance appears to have decreased. Our extensive <i>in-situ</i> monitoring of breeding events over six consecutive years has revealed a previously undetected relationship between <i>Millepora</i> species breeding events and the lunar cycle. Histological analyses indicated remarkably short reproductive cycles of only 2–3 weeks, recurring multiple times within a single season, in both <i>M. dichotoma</i> and <i>M. exaesa,</i> which is a unique reproductive aspect compared to other reef-building corals. These results highlight the high reproductive and resilience potential of <i>Millepora</i> species. Consequently, fire corals could assume a more substantial role as keystone species in changing environments and future reefs, emphasizing their importance in reef conservation and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial structuring of coral traits along a subtropical-temperate transition zone persists despite localised signs of tropicalisation","authors":"Defne Sahin, Nestor E. Bosch, Chenae Cooper, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Ben Radford, Verena Schoepf, Damian P. Thomson, Thomas Wernberg","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02564-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02564-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate-driven species range expansions are underway with more tropically affiliated species, including Scleractinian corals, becoming increasingly abundant at higher latitudes. However, uncertainty remains on how these range shifts will affect reef-scale ecosystem processes, which will ultimately depend on the traits of the taxa that dominate these assemblages. Here, we quantified spatiotemporal patterns in the taxonomic and trait structure of coral assemblages along the subtropical-temperate coast of Western Australia (27°–34°S). Coral abundance was generally low and coral cover &lt; 5% across our study sites. Coral assemblages shared similarities in morphological trait structures across the latitudinal gradient, mostly characterised by taxa with simple morphologies; yet subtle differences were also observed across latitudes, with high-latitude corals characterised by slower growth rates and reduced maximum colony sizes. We found a 3.4-fold increase (from 1 to 3.4 individuals m⁻²) in coral abundance at one heavily disturbed location, where canopy-forming seaweeds were replaced by turfing algae, a pattern that was partly driven by an increase in the relative contribution of warm affinity taxa, such as <i>Acropora</i> spp. We predicted these changes would be reflected in different components of functional diversity; yet, despite a localised signal of tropicalisation, we only observed subtle changes in the functional identity, richness, evenness, and divergence. The spatially invariant trait structure of coral assemblages suggests that the nature of ecosystem functions will likely remain unchanged during early stages of tropicalisation, and hence their contribution to temperate reef-scale ecological processes will depend on dominance over other benthic foundational species.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"eDNA metabarcoding captures a decline of coral diversity at Taiping Island after an outbreak of Crown-of-Thorns starfish","authors":"M. Aravinda Kishan Peiris, Shang-Yin Vanson Liu, Joseph D. DiBattista, Michael Bunce, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Kang-Ning Shen, Chih-Wei Chang","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02566-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02566-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coral reefs are known to be one of the most diverse marine ecosystems on earth. However, these important ecosystems are heavily stressed by natural and anthropogenic activities. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an innovative approach that can provide a greater diversity of taxonomic detections, non-invasive sampling, and a lower field component cost than traditional biomonitoring methods. Taiping Island (Itu Aba Island) is one of the major coral reef islands situated in the South China Sea where underwater visual surveys documented an outbreak of Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS) in 2021. In our study, we used eDNA metabarcoding to investigate whether there were shifts in coral communities by comparing pre- and post-COTS outbreak communities. One metabarcoding assay targeting the 18S gene and two assays targeting the ITS2 region (one of these assays specifically targeting Acroporid corals) were applied to 42 seawater samples collected in 2019 and 2021 from 12 sites around Taiping Island. Based on these three metabarcoding assays, 52 unique hard coral species were identified, corresponding to a total of 51 species in 2019 and 26 species in 2021. Our results indicated a significant decline in coral diversity but an increase in sponge diversity from the phylum porifera at Taiping Island in 2021. We suggest that these faunal shifts may be due to active feeding and disturbance of COTS at outbreak proportions that result in habitat changes. Our findings also suggest that eDNA can continue to serve as a promising tool to monitor the change in coral as well as reef-associated taxa during devastating outbreak events.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long-term dynamics of hard coral cover across Indonesia","authors":"Tries B. Razak, Ravienkha R. Budaya, Frensly D. Hukom, Beginer Subhan, Fathia K. Assakina, Shifa Fauziah, Haifa H. Jasmin, Rindah Talitha Vida, Cut Aja Gita Alisa, Rizya Ardiwijaya, Alan T. White, Sterling B. Tebbett","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02540-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02540-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most comparative studies assessing reef health focus on living hard coral cover as the key metric. In Indonesia, in situ monitoring of coral cover has been ongoing for over five decades. However, as monitoring data and research findings are predominantly published in the local language (Bahasa Indonesia), local data often escape global attention, resulting in Indonesian coral reefs receiving less scientific attention despite accounting for ~ 15% of all coral reef area globally. Here, we systematically compiled both globally and locally published data on coral cover across Indonesia to assess changes over recent decades. We analysed 7,614 data entries extracted from 621 publications and found that the majority (79.1%) of the publications were written in Bahasa Indonesia, constituting 63.4% of the total data entries. Our dataset revealed limited evidence of net declines in coral cover over the last three decades (1994–2022). There was also no clear relationship between coral cover and human density, as well as with the thirteen environmental/anthropogenic drivers examined. We discuss several factors that may contribute to this lack of detectable large-scale change including: recent data potentially representing a ‘shifted baseline’; the ‘averaging out’ of localised changes in coral cover dynamics at a broad scale; sampling biases; and/or the potential resilience of Indonesian coral reefs compared to other regions. This study highlights the wealth of accessible local coral reef data published in languages other than English and emphasises the importance of using such data to enhance our understanding of the long-term dynamics of coral reef ecosystems worldwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Habitat trumps biogeography in structuring coral reef fishes","authors":"David R. Bellwood, Sterling B. Tebbett","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02556-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02556-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, coral reefs have been the focus of numerous biogeographic analyses. With strong biodiversity gradients across the Indo-Pacific, coral reefs have shed light on the effects of evolutionary history, isolation, and human exploitation on local assemblages. However, there are also strong environmentally driven local gradients in faunal assemblages. We ask, does reef fish community composition and trait space vary to a greater extent across small scales (i.e. along habitat gradients) or across large scales (i.e. across geographic regions separated by up to 12,000 km)? Using a standardized survey method that explicitly includes habitats (i.e. the slope, crest, and flat), we surveyed a highly diverse family of reef fishes (Labridae) in nine regions across the Indo-Pacific, from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to French Polynesia. We demonstrate that small-scale habitat gradients represent a greater axis of variation, in both the taxonomic and trait composition of fish assemblages, than large-scale biogeographic gradients. Indeed, fish assemblages just 10 m apart, along a habitat gradient, appear to differ more than assemblages in the same habitats separated by over 12,000 km along the world’s largest biodiversity gradient. Essentially, fish assemblages cluster by habitat regardless of their biogeographic region, with habitat associations trumping biogeographic affiliations. This emphasizes the primacy of local environmental factors, such as hydrodynamics, in shaping the ecology of reef fishes. It also raises serious concerns over the use of combined datasets, where data from different habitats are used, without explicit recognition, in global-scale analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142181482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reef refugia in the aftermath of past episodes of global warming","authors":"Danijela Dimitrijević, Nadia Santodomingo, Wolfgang Kiessling","doi":"10.1007/s00338-024-02548-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02548-y","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In the face of rising global temperatures, coral reefs experience coral mass bleaching and mortality. Subtropical and mesophotic environments may represent refugia for reef corals under climate change, where they can survive and eventually recolonize degraded areas. Using a comprehensive database of fossil reefs, we empirically assess the efficacy of subtropical, deeper, and turbid mesophotic environments to restore coral reefs after past global warming events. We focus on tropical coral reefs over the last 275 million years and four rapid climate warming events, which coincided with global reef crises in the geological record. In the aftermath of such hyperthermal events, we observed an increase in the proportions of reefs occurring in deeper (blue) mesophotic environments. Additionally, we found a trend of reef distributions and coral shifting towards higher latitudes. The number of coral occurrences in turbid (brown mesophotic) environments also increased after hyperthermal events. Our results suggest that subtropical, blue, and brown mesophotic environments may have served as immediate refugia for shallow-water coral species escaping warming seawater. While the patterns of reef range shifts and the establishment of blue and brown mesophotic refugia following ancient hyperthermal events provide some hope for coral reefs under current climate change, re-establishement of background reef conditions took most times millions of years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ante el incremento de temperatura global, los arrecifes coralinos están experimentando eventos masivos de blanqueamiento y mortalidad. Los ambientes subtropicales y mesofóticos pueden representar refugios para los corales arrecifales, en los cuales pueden escapar de los efectos del cambio climático, sobrevivir y desde allí recolonizar áreas previamente degradadas. Mediante el uso de una exhaustiva base de datos en arrecifes coralinos, en este estudio se evaluó empíricamente la eficacia de los ambientes subtropicales y mesofóticos, tanto de aguas turbias someras (marrones) como de aguas claras profundas (azules), en la recuperación de arrecifes coralinos después de eventos hipertermales en el pasado. Nuestro enfoque estuvo en los arrecifes coralinos tropicales durante los últimos 275 millones de años y cuatro eventos de calentamiento climático rápido, los cuales coinciden con crisis globales en la ocurrencia de arrecifes en el registro fósil. Como consecuencia de dichos eventos hipertermales, observamos un aumento del número de arrecifes en ambientes mesofóticos de aguas profundas (azules). Además, encontramos una tendencia en la distribución de arrecifes y corales que se desplazan hacia latitudes más altas. También se observó un aumento en el número de corales que estuvieron presentes en ambientes de aguas turbias (marrones) después de dichos eventos hipertermales. Nuestros resultados sugieren que, en el pasado, los ambientes subtropicales, mesofóticos azules y mesofóticos marrones pudieron haber servid","PeriodicalId":10821,"journal":{"name":"Coral Reefs","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142181483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}