[Coral-List] fire coral is a survivor in the Caribbean

[Douglas Fenner]

Thanks Bill!  Some Millepora species may be quite sensitive to bleaching,
one small population of a branching species in Am Samoa got completely
wiped out by bleaching in 2016 or so.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:06 PM Bill Allison <allison.billiam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Millepora is not doing well in the Maldives where it pretty much
> disappeared in 1998.
> e.g., Morri, C., C. N. Bianchi, et al. (2017). "Global climate change and
> regional biotic responses: two hydrozoan tales." Marine Biology Research
> 13(5): 573-586.
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 1:56 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> How does Caribbean fire coral thrive as others vanish?
>>
>>
>> https://www.science.org/content/article/how-does-caribbean-fire-coral-thrive-others-vanish
>>
>> open-access
>>
>> Persistence of a sessile benthic organism promoted by a morphological
>> strategy combining sheets and trees
>>
>> https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0952
>>
>> open-access
>>
>> Cheers, Doug
>>
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>> 1 in 6 deaths worldwide can be attributed to pollution, new review shows
>>
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