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Coping with Commitment: Projected Thermal Stress on Coral Reefs under Different Future Scenarios
BACKGROUND: Periods of anomalously warm ocean temperatures can lead to mass coral bleaching. Past studies have concluded that anthropogenic climate change may rapidly increase the frequency of these thermal stress events, leading to declines in coral cover, shifts in the composition of corals and ot...
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Public Library of Science
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19492060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005712 |