[Coral-List] coral life-history traits compared to conservation status

[Douglas Fenner]

 "Incongruence between life-history traits and conservation status in reef
corals."
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00338-019-01885-7.pdf
open-access

I quote from the last sentence of the abstract:

"We argue that the conservation status for the vast majority of coral
species should be ‘data deficient’ and is likely to remain so for the
foreseeable future, and that the status and trends of coral populations can
only be reliably assessed at relatively small scales."

Cheers, Doug

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Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
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"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