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CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 59-64Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.028
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- Marine Science for Management Program of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Australian Research Council
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Katheryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship from the World Wildlife Fund
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Coral reef communities are likely to change in the future as reef organisms respond differently to various stressors. In order to predict future reef compositions, we apply estimates of coral and fish vulnerability to two key stressors; climate change (bleaching) and fishing. Most corals were vulnerable to one or both stressors, and future coral communities are likely to comprise stress-tolerant and weedy life histories. Fish assemblages displayed a negative relationship to the two stressors; climate impacts and fishing independently influenced a different suite of species. Most functionally important groups of fishes were more vulnerable to fishing than climate change. While climate change will negatively affect many taxa (particularly reef corals), reducing local fishing impacts should benefit reef futures by enhancing key ecosystem processes.
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