Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced…

CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls

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The consequences were dramatic:

🪸 Across reefs in southern Mexico, we documented >76% loss of live coral cover in just months

📉 Some reefs experienced near-total collapse of living coral communities.

This wasn’t just bleaching , it was mass mortality.

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CORAL REEF NEWS: ‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs

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Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium - Coral Reefs Coral reefs worldwide are under severe threat due to a combination of local stressors and escalating intensity and frequency of heatwaves, which lead to mass coral bleaching. Although turbid-zone reef...

NEW CORAL RESEARCH: Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium (NOT OPEN ACCESS)

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