Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event

C. Mark Eakin, Scott F. Heron, Sean R. Connolly, Denise A. Devotta, Gang Liu, Erick F. Geiger, Jacqueline L. De La Cour, Andrea M. Gomez, William J. Skirving, Andrew H. Baird, Neal E. Cantin, Courtney S. Couch, Simon D. Donner, James Gilmour, Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero, Mishal Gudka, Hugo B. Harrison, Gregor Hodgson, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Andrew S. Hoey, Mia O. Hoogenboom, Terry P. Hughes, Meaghan E. Johnson, James T. Kerry, Tadashi Kimura, Jennifer Mihaly, Aarón Israel Muñiz-Castillo, David O. Obura, Morgan S. Pratchett, Andrea Rivera-Sosa, Claire L. Ross, Jennifer Stein, Angus Thompson, Gergely Torda, T. Shay Viehman, Cory S. Walter, Shaun Wilson, Benjamin L. Marsh, Blake L. Spady, Noel Dyer, Thomas C. Adam, Pedro Alcolado, Mahsa Alidoostsalimi, Parisa Alidoostsalimi, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Mariana Álvarez-Noriega, Jesús Ernesto Arias-González, Keisha D. Bahr, Peter Barnes, José Enrique Barraza Sandoval, Julia K. Baum, Andrew G. Bauman, Maria Beger, Kathryn Berry, Pia Bessell-Browne, Lionel Bigot, Victor Bonito, Ole B. Brodnicke, David Burdick, Deron E. Burkepile, April J. Burt, John A. Burt, Ian R. Butler, Jamie M. Caldwell, Yannick Chancerelle, Chaolun Allen Chen, Kah-Leng Cherh, Michael J. Childress, Darren J. Coker, Bryan Costa, Georgia Coward, M. James C. Crabbe, Thomas Dallison, Steven Dalton, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Crawford Drury, Ian Drysdale, Clinton B. Edwards, Linda Eggertsen, Eylem Elma, Rosmin S. Ennis, Richard D. Evans, Gal Eyal, Douglas Fenner, Baruch Figueroa-Zavala, Jay Fisch, Michael D. Fox, Elena Gadoutsis, Antoine Gilbert, Andrew R. Halford, Tom Heintz, James Hewlett, Jean-Paul A. Hobbs, Whitney C. Hoot, Peter Houk, Lyza Johnston, Michelle A. Johnston, Hajime Kayanne, Emma V. Kennedy, Ruy Kenji Papa de Kikuchi, Ulrike Kloiber, Haruko Koike, K. Lindsey Kramer, Chao-Yang Kuo, Judith Lang, Alice Lawrence, Abigail Leadbeater, Zelinda M. A. N. Leão, Jen Nie Lee, Cynthia Lewis, Diego Lirman, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Chancey MacDonald, Jennie Mallela, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Isabel Marques da Silva, Christophe Mason-Parker, Vanessa McDonough, Melanie McField, Thayná Mello, Celine Miternique-Agathe, Mouchtadi Madi, Stephan Moldzio, Alison A. Monroe, Monica Montefalcone, Kevin S. Moses, Pargol G. Mostafavi, Rodrigo Leão de Moura, Chathurika S. Munasinghe, Jelvas Mwaura, Takashi Nakamura, Jean-Benoit Nicet, Marissa F. Nuttall, Marilia D. M. Oliveira, Hazel A. Oxenford, John M. Pandolfi, Vardhan Patankar, Denise Perez, Nishan Perera, Derta Prabuning, William Precht, K. Diraviya Raj, James D. Reimer, Laura E. Richardson, Randi Rotjan, Nicole Ryan, Rod Salm, Stuart A. Sandin, Stephanie Schopmeyer, George Shedrawi, Mohammad Reza Shokri, Jennifer E. Smith, Kylie Smith, Struan R. Smith, Tyler B. Smith, Brigitte Sommer, Melina Soto, Richard Suckoo, Helen Sykes, Kelley Anderson Tagarino, Marianne Teoh, Minh Quang Thai, Tai Chong Toh, Alex Tredinnick, Alex Tso, Harriet Tyley, Ali M. Ussi, Bernardo Vargas-Angel, Christian Vaterlaus, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Si Tuan Vo, Christian R. Voolstra, Hin Boo Wee, Bradley A. Weiler, Dana E. Williams, Saleh A. S. Yahya, Thamasak Yeemin, Maren Ziegler, Derek P. Manzello

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10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w
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@article{allodium:10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w,
  title = {Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event},
  author = {C. Mark Eakin and Scott F. Heron and Sean R. Connolly and Denise A. Devotta and Gang Liu and Erick F. Geiger and Jacqueline L. De La Cour and Andrea M. Gomez and William J. Skirving and Andrew H. Baird and Neal E. Cantin and Courtney S. Couch and Simon D. Donner and James Gilmour and Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero and Mishal Gudka and Hugo B. Harrison and Gregor Hodgson and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Andrew S. Hoey and Mia O. Hoogenboom and Terry P. Hughes and Meaghan E. Johnson and James T. Kerry and Tadashi Kimura and Jennifer Mihaly and Aarón Israel Muñiz-Castillo and David O. Obura and Morgan S. Pratchett and Andrea Rivera-Sosa and Claire L. Ross and Jennifer Stein and Angus Thompson and Gergely Torda and T. Shay Viehman and Cory S. Walter and Shaun Wilson and Benjamin L. Marsh and Blake L. Spady and Noel Dyer and Thomas C. Adam and Pedro Alcolado and Mahsa Alidoostsalimi and Parisa Alidoostsalimi and Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip and Mariana Álvarez-Noriega and Jesús Ernesto Arias-González and Keisha D. Bahr and Peter Barnes and José Enrique Barraza Sandoval and Julia K. Baum and Andrew G. Bauman and Maria Beger and Kathryn Berry and Pia Bessell-Browne and Lionel Bigot and Victor Bonito and Ole B. Brodnicke and David Burdick and Deron E. Burkepile and April J. Burt and John A. Burt and Ian R. Butler and Jamie M. Caldwell and Yannick Chancerelle and Chaolun Allen Chen and Kah-Leng Cherh and Michael J. Childress and Darren J. Coker and Bryan Costa and Georgia Coward and M. James C. Crabbe and Thomas Dallison and Steven Dalton and Thomas M. DeCarlo and Crawford Drury and Ian Drysdale and Clinton B. Edwards and Linda Eggertsen and Eylem Elma and Rosmin S. Ennis and Richard D. Evans and Gal Eyal and Douglas Fenner and Baruch Figueroa-Zavala and Jay Fisch and Michael D. Fox and Elena Gadoutsis and Antoine Gilbert and Andrew R. Halford and Tom Heintz and James Hewlett and Jean-Paul A. Hobbs and Whitney C. Hoot and Peter Houk and Lyza Johnston and Michelle A. Johnston and Hajime Kayanne and Emma V. Kennedy and Ruy Kenji Papa de Kikuchi and Ulrike Kloiber and Haruko Koike and K. Lindsey Kramer and Chao-Yang Kuo and Judith Lang and Alice Lawrence and Abigail Leadbeater and Zelinda M. A. N. Leão and Jen Nie Lee and Cynthia Lewis and Diego Lirman and Guilherme Ortigara Longo and Chancey MacDonald and Jennie Mallela and Sangeeta Mangubhai and Isabel Marques da Silva and Christophe Mason-Parker and Vanessa McDonough and Melanie McField and Thayná Mello and Celine Miternique-Agathe and Mouchtadi Madi and Stephan Moldzio and Alison A. Monroe and Monica Montefalcone and Kevin S. Moses and Pargol G. Mostafavi and Rodrigo Leão de Moura and Chathurika S. Munasinghe and Jelvas Mwaura and Takashi Nakamura and Jean-Benoit Nicet and Marissa F. Nuttall and Marilia D. M. Oliveira and Hazel A. Oxenford and John M. Pandolfi and Vardhan Patankar and Denise Perez and Nishan Perera and Derta Prabuning and William Precht and K. Diraviya Raj and James D. Reimer and Laura E. Richardson and Randi Rotjan and Nicole Ryan and Rod Salm and Stuart A. Sandin and Stephanie Schopmeyer and George Shedrawi and Mohammad Reza Shokri and Jennifer E. Smith and Kylie Smith and Struan R. Smith and Tyler B. Smith and Brigitte Sommer and Melina Soto and Richard Suckoo and Helen Sykes and Kelley Anderson Tagarino and Marianne Teoh and Minh Quang Thai and Tai Chong Toh and Alex Tredinnick and Alex Tso and Harriet Tyley and Ali M. Ussi and Bernardo Vargas-Angel and Christian Vaterlaus and Mark J. A. Vermeij and Si Tuan Vo and Christian R. Voolstra and Hin Boo Wee and Bradley A. Weiler and Dana E. Williams and Saleh A. S. Yahya and Thamasak Yeemin and Maren Ziegler and Derek P. Manzello},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  doi = {10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w}
}

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Eakin, C. M., Heron, S. F., Connolly, S. R., Devotta, D. A., Liu, G., Geiger, E. F., Cour, J. L. D. L., Gomez, A. M., Skirving, W. J., Baird, A. H., Cantin, N. E., Couch, C. S., Donner, S. D., Gilmour, J., Gonzalez-Rivero, M., Gudka, M., Harrison, H. B., Hodgson, G., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Hoey, A. S., Hoogenboom, M. O., Hughes, T. P., Johnson, M. E., Kerry, J. T., Kimura, T., Mihaly, J., Muñiz-Castillo, A. I., Obura, D. O., Pratchett, M. S., Rivera-Sosa, A., Ross, C. L., Stein, J., Thompson, A., Torda, G., Viehman, T. S., Walter, C. S., Wilson, S., Marsh, B. L., Spady, B. L., Dyer, N., Adam, T. C., Alcolado, P., Alidoostsalimi, M., Alidoostsalimi, P., Alvarez-Filip, L., Álvarez-Noriega, M., Arias-González, J. E., Bahr, K. D., Barnes, P., Sandoval, J. E. B., Baum, J. K., Bauman, A. G., Beger, M., Berry, K., Bessell-Browne, P., Bigot, L., Bonito, V., Brodnicke, O. B., Burdick, D., Burkepile, D. E., Burt, A. J., Burt, J. A., Butler, I. R., Caldwell, J. M., Chancerelle, Y., Chen, C. A., Cherh, K., Childress, M. J., Coker, D. J., Costa, B., Coward, G., Crabbe, M. J. C., Dallison, T., Dalton, S., DeCarlo, T. M., Drury, C., Drysdale, I., Edwards, C. B., Eggertsen, L., Elma, E., Ennis, R. S., Evans, R. D., Eyal, G., Fenner, D., Figueroa-Zavala, B., Fisch, J., Fox, M. D., Gadoutsis, E., Gilbert, A., Halford, A. R., Heintz, T., Hewlett, J., Hobbs, J. A., Hoot, W. C., Houk, P., Johnston, L., Johnston, M. A., Kayanne, H., Kennedy, E. V., Kikuchi, R. K. P. D., Kloiber, U., Koike, H., Kramer, K. L., Kuo, C., Lang, J., Lawrence, A., Leadbeater, A., Leão, Z. M. A. N., Lee, J. N., Lewis, C., Lirman, D., Longo, G. O., MacDonald, C., Mallela, J., Mangubhai, S., Silva, I. M. D., Mason-Parker, C., McDonough, V., McField, M., Mello, T., Miternique-Agathe, C., Madi, M., Moldzio, S., Monroe, A. A., Montefalcone, M., Moses, K. S., Mostafavi, P. G., Moura, R. L. D., Munasinghe, C. S., Mwaura, J., Nakamura, T., Nicet, J., Nuttall, M. F., Oliveira, M. D. M., Oxenford, H. A., Pandolfi, J. M., Patankar, V., Perez, D., Perera, N., Prabuning, D., Precht, W., Raj, K. D., Reimer, J. D., Richardson, L. E., Rotjan, R., Ryan, N., Salm, R., Sandin, S. A., Schopmeyer, S., Shedrawi, G., Shokri, M. R., Smith, J. E., Smith, K., Smith, S. R., Smith, T. B., Sommer, B., Soto, M., Suckoo, R., Sykes, H., Tagarino, K. A., Teoh, M., Thai, M. Q., Toh, T. C., Tredinnick, A., Tso, A., Tyley, H., Ussi, A. M., Vargas-Angel, B., Vaterlaus, C., Vermeij, M. J. A., Vo, S. T., Voolstra, C. R., Wee, H. B., Weiler, B. A., Williams, D. E., Yahya, S. A. S., Yeemin, T., Ziegler, M., & Manzello, D. P. (2026). Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67506-w

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