Coral conservation requires ecological climate?change vulnerability assessments

Climate-driven changes to environmental conditions are driving severe declines of coral reef ecosystems. Current climate vulnerability estimates commonly focus on ocean warming and typically overlook ecological responses or use broad proxies represent responses, leading management decisions based incomplete views futures. We explore four underdeveloped aspects assessments make the following recommendations: (1) projections in global as future scenarios place more common emissions scenarios; (2) include available high-resolution for variables addition thermal stress; (3) combine projected stressors accounting uncertainty outcomes; (4) quantitatively assess historical project sensitivity adaptive capacity corals multiple stressors. demonstrate how this framework can be used reduce facilitate targeted investment managing reefs most likely endure climatic disturbances.