‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat
In 2003, a marine heat wave devastated coral reef communities in the Mediterranean Sea, including the reefs in the Scandola Marine Reserve, a protected region off the coast of Corsica. More than 15 years later, the coral reef communities in Scandola still have not recovered. Researchers determined that persistent marine heat waves, which are now happening every year in the Mediterranean, are preventing Scandola’s slow-growing coral reefs from recuperating Human-induced climate change is the culprit; persistent rising temperatures in the ocean have normalized marine heat waves, not only in the Mediterranean, but in the global oceans.
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| Format: | trabajo de divulgación biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2022-02-04
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/269303 |
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