2020
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236399
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Interventions to help coral reefs under global change—A complex decision challenge

Abstract: Climate change is impacting coral reefs now. Recent pan-tropical bleaching events driven by unprecedented global heat waves have shifted the playing field for coral reef management and policy. While best-practice conventional management remains essential, it may no longer be enough to sustain coral reefs under continued climate change. Nor will climate change mitigation be sufficient on its own. Committed warming and projected reef decline means solutions must involve a portfolio of mitigation, best-practice c… Show more

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“…The increase in the severity and frequency of marine heatwaves challenges conventional management strategies [59,107]. Therefore, there is a critical need to reassess restoration and management strategies to sustain coral reef ecosystems under these continuing challenging conditions [108]. The global coral reef degradation that has occurred over the last 30-40 years has shifted coral reef resilience and therefore requires focused science and management efforts to prevent the loss of valuable social, ecological, and cultural resources [109].…”
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“…The increase in the severity and frequency of marine heatwaves challenges conventional management strategies [59,107]. Therefore, there is a critical need to reassess restoration and management strategies to sustain coral reef ecosystems under these continuing challenging conditions [108]. The global coral reef degradation that has occurred over the last 30-40 years has shifted coral reef resilience and therefore requires focused science and management efforts to prevent the loss of valuable social, ecological, and cultural resources [109].…”
Section: Actionable Science Advancementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Science advancements have shifted to promote coral reef resilience through an adaptation-focused intervention that will account for a suite of multiple stressors [57,108]. Assisted evolution, the acceleration of evolutionary processes through the enhancement of specific traits, includes four mechanisms to increase environmental stress tolerance: (1) epigenetic programming and exposing adult colonies to high levels of environmental stress, (2) manipulation of the microbes associated with the coral holobiont, (3) culturing coral-associated endosymbiotic algae (Symbiodinium spp.)…”
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“…The mechanism by which temperature and light drives bleaching is through the build-up of reactive oxygen stress inside the coral host due to inactivation of the zooxanthallae photosystem at anomalously-high summertime temperatures [ 4 , 5 ]. As a result of the direct dependence of bleaching on environmental temperature and light levels, researchers have advocated interventions to reduce light reaching corals and/or to cool the water surrounding corals [ 6 8 ].…”
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