Climate change, global warming and coral reefs: modelling the effects of temperature

James Crabbe

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Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 14 Life Below Water

Abstract

Climate change and global warming have severe consequences for the survival of scleractinian (reef-building) corals and their associated ecosystems. This review summarizes recent literature on the influence of temperature on coral growth, coral bleaching, and modelling the effects of high temperature on corals. Satellite-based sea surface temperature (SST) and coral bleaching information available on the internet is an important tool in monitoring and modelling coral responses to temperature. Within the narrow temperature range for coral growth, corals can respond to rate of temperature change as well as to temperature per se. We need to continue to develop models of how non-steady-state processes such as global warming and climate change will affect coral reefs.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Publication milestones

Published - 01/01/2008

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2008

ISSN

1476-9271

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/293999
Scopus: 49949110305

Access to documents

10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.04.001

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