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Recent research has explored the possibility that increased sea-surface temperatures and decreasing pH (ocean acidification) contribute to the ongoing decline of coral reef ecosystems. Within corals, a diverse microbiome exerts significant...

Under climate change, alterations in primary production and concomitant changes in community dynamics are expected in many marine ecosystems. We used an Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) marine ecosystem model of the western Antarctic Peninsula...

The ocean has absorbed ~one third of the excess atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) released since the Industrial Revolution. When the ocean absorbs excess CO2, a series of chemical reactions occur that result in a reduction in seawater...

Hurricane Irma struck Sarasota, Florida, in September 2017, inflicting extensive damage throughout the community. Based on data from a survey conducted one year after the hurricane, this study tests whether the perceived impact of...

Knowledge of multi-stressor interactions and the potential for tradeoffs among tolerance traits is essential for developing intervention strategies for the conservation and restoration of reef ecosystems in a changing climate. Thermal...

This book explores emerging concepts, challenges, and key policy and law tools to help inform governments as they modernize public sector planning to better address 21st century change and advance their sustainable development goals....

The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs, mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean warming, yet one of the greatest challenges of this epiphenomenon...

Climate change and climate variability are affecting marine mammal species and these impacts are projected to continue in the coming decades. Vulnerability assessments provide a framework for evaluating climate impacts over a broad...

With increased urbanization, habitat degradation and climate change, wild animals are resorting to riskier behaviours, such as foraging on food resources provided directly or inadvertently by humans. While human-centric foraging may...

The Florida stone crab occupies habitats that can experience a range of salinities throughout the year, yet nothing is known about their salt balance physiology. We acclimated stone crabs for a week to conditions that mimic the range...

Extreme temperature events are predicted to become more frequent and intense as climate change continues, with important implications for ecosystems. Accordingly, there has been growing interest in what drives resilience to climatic...

Climate change is shifting animal distributions. However, the extent to which future global habitats of threatened marine megafauna will overlap existing human threats remains unresolved. Here we use global climate models and habitat...

Environmental stressors are adversely affecting coral reef ecosystems. There is ample evidence that scleractinian coral growth and physiology may be compromised by reduced pH, and elevated temperature, and that this is exacerbated...

This lesson uses data based on real-world geological archives to guide students toward understanding how climate and oceanographic conditions have impacted coral reef growth over the last 5,000 years. The objective of the lesson is...

Long‐term experimental investigations of transgenerational plasticity (TGP) and transgenerational acclimatization to global change are sparse in marine invertebrates. Here, we test the effect of ocean warming and acidification over...

As environments are rapidly reshaped due to climate change, phenotypic plasticity plays an important role in the ability of organisms to persist and is considered an especially important acclimatization mechanism for longlived sessile...

The widespread degradation of coral reef ecosystems and rapid decline in coral abundance have led to an increased interest in active coral reef restoration. When practitioners restore corals to an area from which they have been nearly...

The marine environment is an essential component of the global life-support system. Oceans regulate the Earth’s climate and harbor some of the largest reservoirs of biodiversity. From an ecological and evolutionary perspective, biodiversity...

Many environmental cues are thought to influence nest site selection by loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, and much debate exists over the possible influence of sand temperature. This study had two primary objectives: (1) to...

Sirenians represent one of three living orders of mammals that include marine representatives. Because of evolutionary convergence based on a common environment, marine mammals tend to be large and well-insulated (for heat retention),...

Florida manatees face recurring exposure to brevetoxins, a suite of neurotoxins produced by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, through inhalation and forage. Near annual blooms in the Gulf of Mexico lead to repeated epizootics and...

Over the last several decades, Florida’s Coral Reef has been impacted by global and local stressors causing significant declines in living coral with no signs of natural recovery. Ocean warming, ocean acidification, and infectious...

Various recent reports, based on different approaches, data sets and time periods, have yielded different conclusions with regard to whether blooms of the Florida red tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, have increased over time. Without...

An unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023 caused widespread coral bleaching and mortality throughout the Caribbean. In the Florida Keys (USA), 2 foundation species, elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) and staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis),...