[Coral-List] Great Barrier Reef temperature hits 400 year high

[Douglas Fenner]

Chemical analysis of coral skeletons reveals unprecedented warming trend
that could spell disaster for the iconic reef

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02529-9?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202408&sap-outbound-id=987037B074A83CBB72C7209DC4F82453C39C2D6E

Open-access

Coral giants sound the alarm for the Great Barrier Reef

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02329-1?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20240808&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240808&sap-outbound-id=987037B074A83CBB72C7209DC4F82453C39C2D6E

Not open-access   Note author email address

Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07672-x?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20240808&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240808&sap-outbound-id=987037B074A83CBB72C7209DC4F82453C39C2D6E

open-access

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA


“The ultimate question, I believe, is not whether mankind can afford to
leave a few places on our planet in near-natural conditions.  Rather, can
we afford not to?”   CRC Sheppard, 2024. The Chagos Archipelago, a
biological biography.  CRC Press.


Fenner, D. 2023. Corals of Hawai’i, 2nd edition.  Mutual Publishing,
Honolulu, and Maui Ocean Center.  440 pp.  (includes 167 page section on
coral biology and coral reef ecology)

https://mauioceancenter.com/shop/



Sheppard, C., Fenner, D., Sheppard, A.  2017.  Corals of Chagos.
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals


Fenner, D.  2020.  Can we save coral reefs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SM8bEm3ocI&t=76s