Resolving the threat of ocean deoxygenation to coral resilience

该项目旨在揭示低氧在空间和时间上塑造健康珊瑚的作用。气候变化和土地利用开发正在迅速使浅水珊瑚礁缺氧，但我们不知道氧气供应减少如何影响控制珊瑚恢复力的关键生活史因素：生长、繁殖和耐受性。该项目联合了一个多学科专家团队，首次将先进的氧气传感、代谢生理学、珊瑚生殖和应激生物学结合起来，改变我们对氧气阈值的理解，这些阈值可以诊断珊瑚在整个生命阶段（成年、幼年、幼虫）的竞争适应性降低，从而改善珊瑚礁生态系统管理。

This project aims to uncover the role low oxygen plays in shaping healthy corals over space and time. Climate change and land use development are rapidly deoxygenating shallow water coral reefs, yet we have no knowledge of how less oxygen availability affects critical life history factors that govern coral resilience: growth, reproduction, and stress tolerance. This project unites a multidisciplinary team of experts to, for the first time, couple advanced oxygen sensing, metabolic physiology, coral reproductive and stress biology to transform our understanding of oxygen thresholds that are diagnostic of reduced coral competitive fitness across life stages (adults, juveniles, larvae), needed to improve coral reef ecosystem management.