Journal
BIOESSAYS
Volume 43, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bies.202100048
Keywords
bleaching alerts; climate adaptation; coral bleaching; coral reef
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Funding
- Australian Research Council [DP180103199]
- University of New South Wales Scientia Program
- Lanfest Ocean Program
- Oak Foundation
- Duke Restore
- NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
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Coral bleaching has had a significant impact on reefs worldwide, with the realization of near-annual bleaching events in recent years. While technology allows for the prediction of large-scale bleaching, the ability to predict reef-scale and within-reef patterns in real-time for all reef users is limited.
Coral bleaching has impacted reefs worldwide and the predictions of near-annual bleaching from over two decades ago have now been realized. While technology currently provides the means to predict large-scale bleaching, predicting reef-scale and within-reef patterns in real-time for all reef users is limited. In 2020, heat stress across the Great Barrier Reef underpinned the region's third bleaching event in 5 years. Here we review the heterogeneous emergence of bleaching across Heron Island reef habitats and discuss the oceanographic drivers that underpinned variable bleaching emergence. We do so as a case study to highlight how reef end-user groups who engage with coral reefs in different ways require targeted guidance for how, and when, to alter their use of coral reefs in response to bleaching events. Our case study of coral bleaching emergence demonstrates how within-reef scale nowcasting of coral bleaching could aid the development of accessible and equitable bleaching response strategies on coral reefs.
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