Some coral reef communities may degrade and change but persist

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Nancy Knowlton. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 17;121(51):e2422158121.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2422158121. Epub 2024 Dec 9.

¹ National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013.

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Experimental coral reef communities transform yet persist under mitigated future ocean warming and acidification.
Jury CP, Bahr KD, Cros A, Dobson KL, Freel EB, Graham AT, McLachlan RH, Nelson CE, Price JT, Rocha de Souza M, Shizuru L, Smith CM, Sparagon WJ, Squair CA, Timmers MA, Vicente J, Webb MK, Yamase NH, Grottoli AG, Toonen RJ. Jury CP, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Nov 5;121(45):e2407112121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2407112121. Epub 2024 Oct 29. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024. PMID: 39471225 Free PMC article.

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