Threats to Coral Reefs Ranked

>>> 1. Ocean warming >>> 2. Coral disease >>> 3. Ocean acidification >>> 4. reef fishing-trophic effects >>> 5. sedimentation >>> 6. nutrients >>> 7. sea level rise >>> 8. toxins >>> 9. changing ocean circulation >>> 10. changing storm track/intensities >>> 11. predation  (think crown-of-thorns starfish and Drupella snails) >>> 12. reef fishin- habitat […]

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Downscaled projections of Coral Bleaching

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:11:00 -0400 From: Ruben van Hooidonk <ruben.van.hooidonk@noaa.gov> Subject: [Coral-List] Downscaled projections of coral bleaching To: coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov Message-ID: <17D71AF0-A897-4194-AC83-661472D64316@noaa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Coral Listers, We have recently published downscaled projections of coral bleaching conditions for the greater Caribbean. This new article is open access at Global Change Biology and can […]

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