[Coral-List] article on atoll islands and sea level rise in the Maldives

[Douglas Fenner]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/26/climate/maldives-islands-climate-change.html

Is rising sea level inundating atoll islands?  It does mention the corals
on the reefs producing the sand that the islands are made of.  Of course,
atolls are built by coral reefs and waves moving sand.

Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
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“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