[Coral-List] plastics and coral

[Douglas Fenner]

These corals choose to eat plastic over food

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/these-corals-choose-to-eat-plastic-over-food/


Chemoreception drives plastic consumption in a hard coral

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X17306112

Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the
temperate coral *Astrangia poculata*

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0726

Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6374/460

Cheers,  Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

Greenhouse gas emissions to set new record this year, but rate of growth
shrinks
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-year-set-new-record-rate-growth-shrinks?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science