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Coral Reef Biodiversity Predicted To Shuffle As Climate Changes

Credit: Chris Jury, HIMB

New research led by scientists at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa reveals that the species which dominate experimental coral reef communities shift due to climate change, but the total biodiversity does not decline under future ocean conditions of warming and acidification predicted by the end of the century. Read the full story about HIMB’s Molly Timmers, Chris Jury And Rob Toonen’s PNAS publication at SOEST News and read the publication at Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.