“…Extreme heat wave events conspicuously manifest as mass coral bleaching—the process whereby large extents of coral rapidly pale through loss of their algal endosymbionts (e.g., Glynn, ; Suggett & Smith, ) via destabilization of the coral–algal symbiosis (e.g., Davy, Allemand, & Weis, ; Matthews et al, ; Smith, Suggett, & Baker, ; Weis, ). Bleached corals rapidly die unless the host coral can secure alternate sources of energy (Grotolli, Rodrigues, & Palardy, ; Grotolli et al, ), causing ecological cascades that impact reef‐associated fish communities (Bellwood, Hoey, Ackerman, & Depczynski, ; Benkwitt, Wilson, & Graham, ; Richardson, Graham, Pratchett, Eurich, & Hoey, ) and ultimately reef landscape erosion (Leggat et al, ; Montefalcone, Carlo, & Bianchi, ) that together transform ecological and biogeochemical service provision.…”