Updates are available Correction dated 2026-05-13

Article History

Received: 10 December 2025

Accepted: 17 March 2026

First Online: 4 April 2026

Change Date: 14 May 2026

Change Type: Update

Change Details: To analyze the subsection of literature that experimentally compares CBASS acute stress assays with longer-term (hereafter referred to as “classic”) heat stress tests and in situ data regarding experimental design, response variables, and correlation of responses, to determine the ecological relevance of CBASS. Here, we define longer-term to refer to assays that last longer than seven days, corresponding to medium- or long-term assay classifications under the Grottoli et al. (2021) framework. Overall, this review serves to provide a better understanding of advantages and limitations of CBASS in its current state and provide CBASS-specific recommendations to help ensure reliable comparisons across studies and enhance reproducibility, ultimately improving global assessments of coral thermal tolerance in an appropriate ecological context.' The original figures in Box 1 were replaced with new figures for better readability. In the sentence "Most studies justified their choice of control temperature based on the study location’s MMM as the baseline," 'temperate' has been corrected

Change Date: 13 May 2026

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-026-02888-x

Declarations

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: We declare no competing interests. Verena Schoepf is Editorial Board member of Coral Reefs .