Declining growth rates of global coral reef ecosystems
Bleached corals on reefs at Lord Howe Island, March 2019. Corals under stress react by expelling the zooxanthellae algae living symbiotically in their...
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Declining growth rates of global coral reef ecosystems
E-Mail IMAGE: Dr. Kay Davis conducts a benthic survey on a flat reef at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia in December 2020. Below her, the coral has healthy, bleached, and dead... view more Credit: Ashly McMahon If the trend of declining coral growth continues at the current rate, the world's coral reefs may cease calcifying around 2054, a new Southern Cross University study has found. Drawing on research from the late 1960s until now, the paper published in Communications & Environment reveals the global spatiotemporal trends and drivers of coral reef ecosystem growth (k...
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