Climate Change Studies of Coral Reefs
This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we announce a Special Issue on climate change and coral reefs. Although global climate change has been a natural part of earth’s history, the rate and magnitude at which change is occurring is cause for concern. Even the most conservative mathematical models examining climate suggest a 1.5°C minimum increase to as high as 6°C by the end of the century. However, much of the reporting focuses on terrestrial habitats, fossil fuel combustion, and the greenhouse effect. To better understand climate change, we also need to focus on marine ecosystems and the “canary in the coal mine” – coral reefs. In this Special Issue, we focus on climate change as it relates to shallow, mesophotic, and deep marine systems and coral, which may be the canary in the seas.
Dr. Kevin B. Strychar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate change
- Global warming
- Coral reefs
- Scleractinian coral
- Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs)
- Deep-sea coral
- Alcyonacean coral
- Octocorals
- Symbiosis
- Apo-symbiosis
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Published Papers
Water - ISSN 2073-4441