Coral reef biodiversity predicted to shuffle rather than collapse as climate changes

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. The study was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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