End of paradise: Coral reefs facing multiple attacks

Case Study 2: End of paradise: Coral reefs facing multiple attacks, by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg , Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland

In Brief: What the multi-disciplinary approach of the IPSO workshop made clear for the first time was the multiple threats reefs are facing, that are now acting together to have a greater impact than if they were occurring on their own.

This suggests that existing scientific projections of how coral reefs will respond to global warming have been highly conservative and must now be modified.

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