Climate change, global warming and coral reefs: Modelling the effects of temperature

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 311-314

  Crabbe, M James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Caribbean; Coral growth; El Ni o; Great barrier reef; Interdecadal; IPCC; Satellite; Scleractinian; SST; Symbiosis; Weather

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BLEACHING; CLEANING; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; REEFS;

CARIBBEAN; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL GROWTH; CORAL REEFS; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERDECADAL; IPCC; SATELLITE; SCLERACTINIAN; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; STEADY-STATE PROCESSES; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE CHANGING; TEMPERATURE RANGES; WEATHER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; CLIMATES; GROWTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 49949110305     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.04.001     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Bak R.P.M. The growth of coral colonies and the importance of crustose correline algae and burrowing sponges in relation with carbonate accumulation. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 10 (1976) 285-337
2. Bessat F., and Buiges D. Two centuries of variation in coral growth in a massive Porites colony from Moorea (French Polynesia): a response of ocean-atmosphere variability from south central Pacific. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 175 (2001) 381-392
3. Cooper T.F., De 'Ath G., Fabricius K.E., and Lough J.M. Declining coral calcification in massive Porites in two nearshore regions of the northern Great Barrier Reef. Global Change Biology 14 (2008) 529-538
4. Crabbe M.J.C. Global warming and coral reefs: modelling the effect of temperature on Acropora palmata colony growth. Computational Biology and Chemistry 31 (2007) 294-297
5. Crabbe M.J.C., Walker E.L.L., and Stephenson D.B. The impact of weather and climate extremes on coral growth. In: Diaz H., and Murnane R. (Eds). Climate Extremes and Society (2008), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK pp. 165-188
6. Crabbe M.J.C., Martinez E., Garcia C., Chub J., Castro L., and Guy J. Growth modelling indicates hurricanes and severe storms are linked to low coral recruitment in the Caribbean. Marine Environmental Research 65 (2008) 364-368
7. Day T., Nagel L., Van Oppen M.J.H., and Caley M.J. Factors affecting the evolution of bleaching resistance in corals. American Naturalist 171 (2008) E72-E88
8. Done T.J. Coral communities adaptability to environmental change at the scales of regions, reefs and reef zones. American Zoologist 39 (1999) 66-79
9. Edmunds P.J. Temperature-mediated transitions between isometry and allometry in a colonial modular invertebrate. Proceedings of The Royal Society B 273 (2006) 2275-2281
10. Edmunds P.J. The effects of temperature on the growth of juvenile scleractinian corals. Marine Biology 154 (2008) 153-162
11. Gleason M.G., and Wellington G.M. Ultraviolet radiation and coral bleaching. Nature 365 (1993) 836-838
12. Glynn P.W. Coral mortality and disturbances to coral reefs in the tropical eastern Pacific. In: Glynn P.W. (Ed). Global Ecological Consequences of the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation (1990), Elsevier Press, Amsterdam 55-126
13. Glynn P.W., Maté J.L., Baker A.C., and Calderón M.O. Coral bleaching and mortality in Panamá and Ecuador during the 1997-1998 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event: spatial/temporal patterns and comparisons with the 1982-1983 event. Bulletin of Marine Science 69 (2001) 79-109
14. Goreau T., McClanahan T., Hayes R., and Strong A.E. Conservation of coral reefs after the 1998 global bleaching event. Conservation Biology 14 1 (2000) 5-15
15. Hoegh-Guldberg O. Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs. Marine Freshwater Research 50 (1999) 839-866
16. Jones R.J. Coral bleaching, bleaching-induced mortality, and the adaptive significance of the bleaching response. Marine Biology 154 (2008) 65-80
17. Kleypas J.A., Danabasoglu G., and Lough J.M. Potential role of the ocean thermostat in determining regional differences in coral reef bleaching events. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (2008) L03613
18. Liu G., Strong A.E., Skirving W.J., and Arzayus L.F. Overview of NOAA coral reef watch program's near-real-time satellite global coral bleaching monitoring activities. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Okinawa (2006) 1783-1793
19. Lough J.M. Unprecedented thermal stress to coral reefs?. Geophysical Research Letters 27 (2000) 3901-3904
20. Lough J.M. 10th anniversary review: a changing climate for coral reefs. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10 (2008) 21-29
21. Lough J.M., and Barnes D.J. Environmental controls on growth of the massive coral Porites. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology 245 (2000) 225-243
22. McClanahan T.R., Ateweberhan M., Muhando C., Maina J., and Mohammed S.M. Effects of climate and seawater temperature variation on coral bleaching and mortality. Ecological Monographs 74 (2007) 503-525
23. Maynard J.A., Turner P.J., Anthony K.R.N., Baird A.H., Berkelmans R., Eakin C.M., Johnson J., Marshall P.A., Packer G.R., Rea A., and Willis B.L. ReefTemp: an interactive monitoring system for coral bleaching using high-resolution SST and improved stress predictors. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (2008) L05603
24. Middlebrook R., Hoegh-Guldberg O., and Leggat W. The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building corals to thermal stress. Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (2008) 1050-1056
25. Muller-Parker G., and D'Elia C.F. Interactions between corals and their symbiotic alga. In: Birkeland C. (Ed). Life and Death of Coral Reefs (1997), Chapman & Hall, New York 96-112
26. Mumby P.J., Hastings A., and Edwards H.J. Thresholds and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs. Nature 450 (2007) 98-101
27. Nie B., Chen T., Liang M., Wang Y., Zhong J., and Zhu Y. Relationship between coral growth rate and sea surface temperature in the northern part of the South China Sea during the past 100 years. Science in China (series D) 40 (1997) 173-182
28. NOAA, 2008. Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (SST) V2, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.noaa.ersst.html.
29. Sheppard C.R.C. Predicted recurrences of mass coral mortality in the Indian Ocean. Nature 425 (2003) 294-297
30. Slowey N.C., and Crowley T.J. Interdecadal variability of northern hemisphere circulation recorded by Gulf of Mexico corals. Geophysical Research Letters 22 (1995) 2345-2348
31. Walker, E.L.L., 2005. The role of weather and climate processes in coral growth. M.Sc. thesis, University of Reading.
32. Wilkinson, C., Souter, D., 2008. Status of Caribbean Coral Reefs after Bleaching and Hurricanes in 2005. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, and Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Townsville, Australia.