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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 4, 期 12, 页码 1090-1094出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2439
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- Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship
- National Environmental Research Program grant
Even if carbon emissions Fire reduced drastically in the next decade the amount of carbon already stored in the atmosphere would lead to the occurrence of extreme thermal events every three to four year between 2040 and 2080(1,2). This time lag on the effect of reducing emissions suggests that the benefits of carbon emission reduction on the health of coral reefs will be notitceable only in the long term(2-4), Here; we use a spatially explicit ecosystem model to compare the potential ecosystem benefits that Caribbean Pacific reefs could gain from reductions in carbon emissions, and the timescale of these benefits. We found that whereas the effect of a reduction in emissions on Caribbean reefs will be modest and realized only in the long term (more than 60 years), Pacific reefs would start to how benefits within the first half of this century. Moreover, it seems that Pacific reefs have the potential to maintain their ecological integrity and ecosystem state in the mid- to long term if carbon emissions are reduced, but only if plate-like corals are present.
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