[Coral-List] bleaching mortality and rejuvination

[Douglas Fenner]

Some corals "killed" by climate change are now returning to life.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219405-some-corals-killed-by-climate-change-are-now-returning-to-life/?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=61341f3b49-briefing-dy-20191010&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-61341f3b49-43423877


Living evidence of a fossil strategy raises hope for warming-affected corals

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2950

There is a somewhat similar process in Fungiids, where a coral can appear
dead yet a few living cells must remain inside because new tiny corals
start to grow from an apparently dead coral.

Krupp DA, Jokiel PL, Chartrand TS  (1993)  Asexual reproduction by the
solitary scleractinian coral *Fungia scutaria* on dead parent coralla in
Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.  Proceedings of the 7th International
Coral Reef Symposium 1: 527-534.
Do a search on ReefBase for Krupp at
http://www.reefbase.org/resource_center/publication/icrs.aspx   You will
have to sign in or register to download it.

Kramarsky-Winter E, Loya Y  (1996)  Regeneration versus budding in fungiid
corals: a trade-off.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 134: 179-185.
https://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/134/m134p179.pdf

Double heatwave killed two-thirds of coral in the central Indian Ocean

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209750-double-heatwave-killed-two-thirds-of-coral-in-central-indian-ocean/


Cheers,  Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

"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

A call to climate action  (Science editorial)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/807?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2019-05-30&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2840296

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change