[Coral-List] Call for paper: Biogenic Reefs at Risk

[Massimo Ponti]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I would like to report a new research topic launched by the journal Frontiers in Marine Science entitled:

Biogenic Reefs at Risk: Facing Globally Widespread Local Threats and Their Interaction with Climate Change

"Tropical and temperate biogenic reefs are increasingly threatened by multiple stressors worldwide. Focusing on possible effects of global climate change, we are losing sight of the impacts on biogenic reefs associated with more ‘localized’ disturbances, such as decline in water quality, overexploitation of resources, spread of non-indigenous species, tourism and urbanization. Such stressors are in their own right increasing in intensity and regularity on a global scale, and will therefore undoubtedly be playing a pivotal role in the health and functionality of biogenic reefs, especially with regard to disease outbreaks, resilience to ecological shifts, loss of ecological goods and services. Information on many of these local, but globally spread, threats to biogenic reefs is still limited. Therefore, it is urgent to draw the most complete picture on these impacts including the multiple stressors acting in synergy with climate change effects."

More information at: https://fro.ntiers.in/Biogenicreefs

Best regards
Massimo Ponti

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Adjunct professor
President of the Italian Association of Scientific Divers
Vice-President of the Reef Check Italy association

BiGeA - Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali
CIRSA - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali in Ravenna
Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Via S. Alberto 163, 48123 Ravenna (Italy)