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SCIENCE
Volume 333, Issue 6041, Pages 418-422Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1204794
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- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
- U.S. NSF
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1041106] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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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