Reef Basics
This reef in the southern Great Barrier Reef was the main study site.
What is One Tree Reef?
This is the main cause of coral bleaching.
What is high water temperature (heat stress)?
This fast-growing coral genus suffered 95 % mortality.
What is Acropora?
The study took place in a reef area protected for this long.
What is 50 years?
What year did the catastrophic bleaching event at One Tree Reef occur?
What is 2024?
One Tree Reef is part of this world-famous coral system.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Scientists measured heat stress using this “°C weeks” metric.
What is Degree Heating Week (DHW)?
The genus that developed black band disease.
What is Goniopora?
Despite protection, this still happened to the reef.
What is catastrophic bleaching?
Between which two months in 2024 did the team collect their field data?
What are February and July?
The reef is located in this Australian state.
What is Queensland?
Even though the reef was protected, this still caused bleaching.
What is ocean warming from climate change?
A massive coral genus that was more resistant to bleaching.
What is Porites?
This global phenomenon is making bleaching events more frequent.
What is climate change?
What instrument did scientists place underwater to record temperature data?
What is a temperature logger?
The study tracked this many coral colonies.
What is 462 colonies?
This coral disease appeared on the genus Goniopora.
What is black band disease?
Another branching genus tracked in the survival analysis.
What is Pocillopora?
Coral reefs are crucial because they support this type of community.
What are marine ecosystems / reef biodiversity?
Corals were categorized as recovered, still bleached, or what other condition?
What is dead?
These two shallow lagoon sites were monitored for coral bleaching.
What are “Gutter” and “Shark Alley”?
The study recorded data for about this many days.
What is 161 days?
This genus often showed partial recovery by July.
What is Isopora?
The article warns that if warming continues, bleaching could happen this often.
What is every year (annual or near-annual bleaching)?
What type of analysis was used to compare coral survival over time among genera?
What is a Kaplan–Meier survival analysis?