Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 318; no. 5857; pp. 1737 - 1742
• Main Authors: Hoegh-Guldberg, O, Mumby, P.J, Hooten, A.J, Steneck, R.S, Greenfield, P, Gomez, E, Harvell, C.D, Sale, P.F, Edwards, A.J, Caldeira, K, Knowlton, N, Eakin, C.M, Iglesias-Prieto, R, Muthiga, N, Bradbury, R.H, Dubi, A, Hatziolos, M.E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Association for the Advancement of Science 14.12.2007; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Accretion; Acidification; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Anthozoa - growth & development; Anthozoa - physiology; Applied ecology; Atmosphere; Biological and medical sciences; Carbon Dioxide; Carbonates; Climate; Climate change; Coastal fisheries; Coastal zone management; Coral reefs; Corals; Dinoflagellida - physiology; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; emissions; Environmental protection; Eukaryota - physiology; fisheries; Fishes; Forecasting; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Global temperatures; Global warming; Greenhouse Effect; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; International environmental cooperation; Marine; Marine and brackish environment; Marine ecosystems; Marine organisms; Ocean acidification; Oceans and Seas; Overexploitation; people; Predictions; Reefs; Review; Sea water; Seawater - chemistry; Temperature; tourism; Water quality; Mortality; Carbon dioxide; Acidification; Coral reef; Review; Forecasting; Dynamical climatology; Marine environment; Climate change; Coelenterata; Human activity; Animal community; Cnidaria; Planetary scale; Ocean; Water pollution; Invertebrata; Anthropogenic factor

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to exceed 500 parts per million and global temperatures to rise by at least 2°C by 2050 to 2100, values that significantly exceed those of at least the past 420,000 years during which most extant marine organisms evolved. Under conditions expected...