Chancey MacDonald

TL;DR: The vertical growth potential of more than 200 tropical western Atlantic and Indian Ocean reefs is calculated and compared against recent and projected rates of SLR under different Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios to show that few reefs will have the capacity to track sea-level rise projections under Representative concentration pathway scenarios without sustained ecological recovery.

TL;DR: Local fisheries management resulted in a 62% increase in the archipelago's juvenile coral density, improving the ecosystem’s recovery potential from major disturbances, and document attenuating but important effects of managing fishing.

TL;DR: The authors found that the proportion of colonies that bleached was strongly related to heat exposure (measured as degree heating weeks, DHW, °C-weeks), depth and coral assemblage structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the community structure, distributions and coral habitat associations of 123 reef fish species along a depth gradient from = 20 m to 3 m, and found that deep offshore reefs provide a potential refuge for a substantial proportion of coral-associated fishes threatened by degradation of shallow coastal reefs.

TL;DR: This work quantifies fish assemblages at each of three depths on eight submerged reefs and two nearby emergent reefs in the central GBR and examines how total fish abundance, the abundance of 13 functional groups, and the functional composition of fish communities varies among depths, reef types, and shelf position.