ArticleScientific reports2019
The Rarity of Depth Refugia from Coral Bleaching Heat Stress in the Western and Central Pacific Islands.
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- Subsurface temperature estimates from a Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) reanalysis provide accurate coral heat stress indices across the Main Hawaiian Islands.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Depth variation in benthic community response to repeated marine heatwaves on remote Central Indian Ocean reefs.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Inter- and intraspecific responses of coral colonies to thermal anomalies on Palmyra Atoll, central Pacific.PloS one · 2024Article
- Mesophotic coral bleaching associated with changes in thermocline depth.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales.Global change biology · 2022Review
- Coral taxonomy and local stressors drive bleaching prevalence across the Hawaiian Archipelago in 2019.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Some researchers have suggested that corals living in deeper reefs may escape heat stress experienced by shallow corals. We evaluated the potential of deep coral reef refugia from bleaching stress by leveraging a long record of satellite-derived sea surface temperature data with a temporal, spatial, and depth precision of in situ temperature records. We calculated an in situ stress metric using a depth bias-adjusted threshold for 457 coral reef sites among 49 islands in the western and central Pacific Ocean over the period 2001-2017. Analysis of 1,453 heating events found no meaningful depth refuge from heat stress down to 38 m, and no significant association between depth and subsurface heat stress. Further, the surface metric underestimated subsurface stress by an average of 39.3%, across all depths. Combining satellite and in situ temperature data can provide bleaching-relevant heat stress results to avoid misrepresentation of heat stress exposure at shallow reefs.
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