[Coral-List] What do coral reef scientists perceive are the major threats to Caribbean coral reefs?
Steve Mussman
sealab at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 17 04:27:32 EDT 2014
Hi Ellen,
Based on the lists posted by Sarah Young I believe hurricanes should have
been included. Someone playfully suggested that I listed disease twice for
emphasis, but it was just a dumb mistake. Your suggestions could certainly
be added as well. I'm even more interested in how any such list would be
prioritized by this community. I imagine that finding consensus on how the
top dozen threats should be listed in order of significance would be the
greater challenge. Some of the threats seem to overlap and regional
differences come into play, but I would venture to guess that while all
these issues are ominous and dispiriting, ocean warming and acidification
would be consistently rated on or near the top.
Regards,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen McRae
Sent: Apr 16, 2014 10:03 PM
To: Steve Mussman , coral-list
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] What do coral reef scientists perceive are the
major threats to Caribbean coral reefs?
Hello Steve and all
Nrs 2 and 7 are Disease in your list. Could one of them be replaced with
Pollution (land and sea-based); also add UV/atmospheric degradation?
Best wishes,
Ellen McRae
FAMRACC
Belize
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Steve Mussman wrote:
>
> While it is certainly a challenge to clearly portray the synergy of
> impacts
> that multiple stressors have on coral reefs without confusing people
> into
> inertia, the issue is being greatly distorted by a deliberate campaign
> designed to continue the debate based on promoting the false proposition
> that there is a substantial level of scientific disunity. I donât
> really see
> that beyond the fringes and would argue that a clear consensus exists.
> The
> eleven threats listed below seem to provide obvious support for Alina's
> case
> for primacy of human causation. So while people may be the solution,
> they
> can't possibly provide a satisfactory resolution without first
> recognizing
> and accepting their role as primary drivers of the problem at hand.
>
>
>
> 1.Ocean warming 2.Disease 3.Ocean acidification 4.Overfishing
> 5.Sedimentation 6.Coral bleaching 7.Disease 8.Coastal development
> 9.Human
> population growth 10.Algal competition 11.Laws and enforcement.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
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