[Coral-List] Healthy reefs need fish mix to survive

[Douglas Fenner]

Healthy coral reefs need fish mix to survive.

news.uwa.edu.au/2020052112102/international/healthy-coral-reefs-need-fish-mix-survive

The logic at the end of the piece is far from clear, I can't see how you
can deduce that from what this piece tells you.  Maybe I just missed
something.

Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on
coral reefs.

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1203-9

 Abstract spells it out clearly.

Not open-access, no author address provided.  Check your library

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

"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