Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification

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Title:: Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification
Series Title:: Science Magazine Volume 333
Creator:: John M. Pandolfi
Sean R. Connolly
Dustin R. Marshall
Anne L. Cohen
Affiliation:: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University -- School for Marine and tropical Biology -- Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
University of Queensland -- School of Biological Sciences
Department of Geology and Geophysics -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Publisher:: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Date:: 2011-07-22
Language:: English

Subjects / Keywords:: climate change
coral reef organisms
ocean acidification
calcification

Abstract:: Many physiological responses in present-day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for substantial evolutionary responses. Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest. Reducing uncertainty in projecting coral reef futures requires improved understanding of past responses to rapid climate change; physiological responses to interacting factors, such as temperature, acidification, and nutrients; and the costs and constraints imposed by acclimation and adaptation.

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