As climate change intensifies, identifying heat-resistant corals is essential for advancing coral‐bleaching research and informing reef conservation and restoration. The Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS) is designed to meet this need by conducting acute heat-stress assays within a standardized methodological framework. Given its affordability and short duration, CBASS use has increased since 2020, warranting a fi...

Climate change-driven coral bleaching and associated chlorophyll (Chl) loss increasingly threaten coral reefs, highlighting the need for non-invasive, cost-effective tools to assess corals’ physiological condition. Researchers have explored the reflectance-based Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a proxy for Chl a . However, almost no calibration curves exist to date; thus it remains unknown if the relationship b...