[Coral-List] pCO2-driven reef demise

[Scott Wooldridge]

For those who are pleased to conceive of ideas beyond prevailing paradigms, I offer a new hypothesis for understanding the modern demise of the coral-Symbiodinium symbiosis and the reefs they construct:
Wooldridge (2011) A hypothesis linking sub-optimal seawater pCO2 conditions for cnidarian-Symbiodinium symbioses with the exceedence of the interglacial threshold (> 260 ppmv) Biogeosciences Discuss., 8, 11215-11253.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/8/11215/2011/bgd-8-11215-2011-discussion.html

Background concepts are provided in an earlier manuscript:
Wooldridge (2010) Is the coral-algal symbiosis really ‘mutually beneficial’ for the partners? Bioessays 32:615-625
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.200900182/abstract

Scott Wooldridge


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