[Coral-List] recovery of reef molluscs and corals from complete ecosystem removal

[Douglas Fenner]

Molluscs:

Nuclear blasts shed light on how animals recover from annihilation.

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/06/nuclear-blasts-shed-light-how-animals-recover-annihilation?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_src=email

Original article:

Thirty-year recovery of mollusc communities after nuclear experimentations
on Fangataufa Atoll (Tuamotu, French Polynesia).
Proceedings B of the Royal Society 282, 2015.

not open access, check Google Scholar (link didn't work for me).

Corals:

Bikini Atoll coral biodiversity resilience five decades after nuclear
testing.  Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2008.

available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richards_ZT?ev=hdr_xprf

Cheers,  Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Contractor with Ocean Associates, Inc.
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

phone 1 684 622-7084

"belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."

Much-touted global warming pause never happened.

http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/06/much-touted-global-warming-pause-never-happened

Has global warming taken a rest?  Not so fast, study suggests.  (check out
the graph)

http://www.livescience.com/51094-no-global-warming-hiatus-found.html

Climate change deniers love to talk about a recent "pause" in global
warming.  A new study says it didn't happen.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/558971/climate-change-deniers-love-talk-about-recent-pause-global-warming-new-study-says-didnt-happen


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