Taryn Foster

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs to recover. While mitigation strategies for climate warming and other anthropogenic disturbances are implemented, coral restoration programs are being established worldwid...

Settlement cues play an essential role in larval habitat selection and influence postsettlemen survival. Recent studies have investigated the impacts of elevated temperature an partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) on the ability of marine larvae to locate the reef. In cora larvae, there has been a focus on chemical settlement cues, which are c...

Aragonite, which is the polymorph of CaCO3 precipitated by modern corals during skeletal formation, has a higher solubility than the more stable polymorph calcite. This higher solubility may leave animals that produce aragonitic skeletons more vulnerable to anthropogenic ocean acidification. It is therefore important to determine whether scleractin...

Rising atmospheric CO2 is causing the oceans to both warm and acidify, which could reduce the calcification rates of corals globally. Successful coral recruitment and high rates of juvenile calcification are critical to the replenishment and ultimate viability of coral reef ecosystems. Although elevated PCO2 (partial pressure of CO2) has been shown...

This study investigated the impacts of acidified seawater (pCO2 900 µatm) and elevated water temperature (+3 °C) on the early life history stages of Acropora spicifera from the subtropical Houtman Abrolhos Islands (28°S) in Western Australia. Settlement rates were unaffected by high temperature (27 °C, 250 µatm), high pCO2 (24 °C, 900 µatm), or a c...

This study investigated the impacts of acidified seawater (pCO2 ~900 \muatm) and elevated water temperature (+3\circC) on the early life history stages of Acropora spicifera from the sub-tropical Houtman Abrolhos Islands (28\circS), in Western Australia. Settlement rates were unaffected by high temperature (27\circC, ~250 \muatm), high pCO2 (24\cir...