Spatial community shift from hard to soft corals in acidified water

By S. Inoue, H. Kayanne, Shoji Yamamoto, H. Kurihara. 2013

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Research combining the analysis of coral distribution in volcanically acidified waters with laboratory culture experiments indicates that reef communities may shift from reef-building hard corals to non-reef-building soft corals under CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) levels of 550–970 μatm that are predicted to occur by the end of this century.

Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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