[Coral-List] big herbivores drive reef fish evolution

[Douglas Fenner]

Big vegetarians of the reef drive fish evolution
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-big-vegetarians-reef-fish-evolution.html
<https://phys.org/news/2020-06-big-vegetarians-reef-fish-evolution.html?fbclid=IwAR3qa8i1T5HUgYVejwzniULRklB48eMR1altuOX90pHqBdcdbBs4jdJhC0o>

Trophic innovations fuel reef fish diversification
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16498-w

Open access

Competitive traits of coral symbionts may alter the structure and function
of the microbiome

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-020-0697-0.epdf
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-020-0697-0.epdf?sharing_token=j3NTh5MU2xharlXBU5r_X9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O1eL-fSc5vJrILpAiK7Ztnxl-NY3pLz6uF3ErNgc-zND4qnF2iNLKtRIhSadRYyeZnpiz6Ded1BONTqvYTcBnHCLwbFkEnT3YTjGtJ06ebKLinhHpIOlF-fGqy3qPiuZE%3D&fbclid=IwAR3oZErqMK0CQKq0BnrEByMhcn_JIMi9CYLZwaT_kTiTkNUYVvkYGi1KFO4>

Open-access

Using artificial intelligence to save coral reefs

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-artificial-intelligence-coral-reefs.html

(AI analysis of video of fish swimming around cement blocks underwater will
"save coral reefs"???)

Cyclones can damage even distant reefs.
https://www.aims.gov.au/news-and-media/cyclones-can-damage-even-distant-reefs
<https://www.aims.gov.au/news-and-media/cyclones-can-damage-even-distant-reefs?fbclid=IwAR1uptndpLb-8YYQyk1TK0-HMoqnuHGPgsva_EAe-RJ-GhjSMq4DronmnGE>

Towards modeling the future risk of cyclone wave damage to the world's
coral reefs.

 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.15136

Not open-access.  See author email address.
-- 
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

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


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

"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