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Deep reefs of the Great Barrier Reef offer limited thermal refuge during mass coral bleaching

Our rapidly warming climate is threatening coral reefs as thermal anomalies trigger mass coral bleaching events. Deep (or “mesophotic”) coral reefs are hypothesised to act as major ecological refuges from mass bleaching, but empirical assessments are limited. We evaluated the potential of mesophotic...

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Autores principales: Frade, Pedro R., Bongaerts, Pim, Englebert, Norbert, Rogers, Alice, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30181537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05741-0