[Coral-List] new articles on coral reefs in the anthropocene and traits

[Douglas Fenner]

Coral reefs in the anthropocene

Coral reefs support immense biodiversity and provide important ecosystem
services to many millions of people. Yet reefs are degrading rapidly in
response to numerous anthropogenic drivers. In the coming centuries, reefs
will run the gauntlet of climate change, and rising temperatures will
transform them into new configurations, unlike anything observed previously
by humans. Returning reefs to past configurations is no longer an option.
Instead, the global challenge is to steer reefs through the Anthropocene
era in a way that maintains their biological functions. Successful
navigation of this transition will require radical changes in the science,
management and governance of coral reefs.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7656/full/nature22901.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170601&spMailingID=54179123&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=1165210174&spReportId=MTE2NTIxMDE3NAS2#author-information

Not open-access.  See if you have the email address of any of the authors.

another:  traits

Biodiversity moves beyond counting species.
The biodiversity revolution.
Ecologists are increasingly looking at traits- rather than species- to
measure the health of ecosystems.

http://www.nature.com/news/biodiversity-moves-beyond-counting-species-1.22079?spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=1165210174&WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170601&spReportId=MTE2NTIxMDE3NAS2&spMailingID=54179123

Open-access.

This new issue of Nature has several articles on biodiversity issues that
might be of some interest to some.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7656/index.html

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Contractor for NOAA NMFS Protected Species, and consultant
"have regulator, will travel"
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

phone 1 684 622-7084

New online open-access field guide to 300 coral species in Chagos, Indian
Ocean
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals

Join the International Society for Reef Studies.  Membership includes a
subscription to the journal Coral Reefs, and there are discounts for pdf
subscriptions and developing countries.  Coral Reefs is the only journal
that is ALL coral reef articles, and it has amazingly LOW prices compared
to other journals.  Check it out!  www.fit.edu/isrs/

"Belief in climate change is optional, participation is not."- Jim Beever.
  "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts."-
Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Study: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-stopping-global-warming-only-way-save-coral-180833431.html

Goodby smokestacks: Startup invents zero-emission fossil fuel power.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/goodbye-smokestacks-startup-invents-zero-emission-fossil-fuel-power?utm_campaign=news_daily_2017-05-24&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=1345339

A roadmap for rapid decarbonization
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1269?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2017-03-23&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=1233226