ArticleScience advances2023
Ocean currents magnify upwelling and deliver nutritional subsidies to reef-building corals during El Niño heatwaves.
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- Quantifying coral reef-ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Multi-Species Telemetry Quantifies Current and Future Efficacy of a Remote Marine Protected Area.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Changes within the coral symbiosis underpin seasonal trophic plasticity in reef corals.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Climate refugia in the Great Barrier Reef may endure into the future.Science advances · 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
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Abstract
Marine heatwaves are triggering coral bleaching events and devastating coral populations globally, highlighting the need to identify processes promoting coral survival. Here, we show that acceleration of a major ocean current and shallowing of the surface mixed layer enhanced localized upwelling on a central Pacific coral reef during the three strongest El Niño-associated marine heatwaves of the past half century. These conditions mitigated regional declines in primary production and bolstered local supply of nutritional resources to corals during a bleaching event. The reefs subsequently suffered limited post-bleaching coral mortality. Our results reveal how large-scale ocean-climate interactions affect reef ecosystems thousands of kilometers away and provide a valuable framework for identifying reefs that may benefit from such biophysical linkages during future bleaching events.
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