[Coral-List] corals colonizing cooler areas, declining coral recruitment, etc

[Douglas Fenner]

As oceans warm, tropical corals seek refuge in cooler waters.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-oceans-warm-tropical-corals-seek-refuge-in-cooler-waters


Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical
increase

https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v621/p1-17/

Open-access

Rapid coral decay is associated with marine heatwave mortality events on
reefs.

see Google Scholar

Coral bacterial community structure responds to environmental change in a
host-specific manner

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10969-5

open-access  (surprisingly, this article does not appear to fit with the
point in the popular article that it was supposed to support.  Some sort of
mistake it would appear.)

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