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dc.contributor.authorCrabbe, M. James C.en_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-14T13:20:40Z
dc.date.available2013-06-14T13:20:40Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationCrabbe, M.J.C. (2008) 'Climate change, global warming and coral reefs: modelling the effects of temperature', Computational Biology and Chemistry, 32(5), pp.311-314en_GB
dc.identifier.issn14769271
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.04.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/293999
dc.description.abstractClimate change and global warming have severe consequences for the survival of scleractinian (reef-building) corals and their associated ecosystems. This review summarizes recent literature on the influence of temperature on coral growth, coral bleaching, and modelling the effects of high temperature on corals. Satellite-based sea surface temperature (SST) and coral bleaching information available on the internet is an important tool in monitoring and modelling coral responses to temperature. Within the narrow temperature range for coral growth, corals can respond to rate of temperature change as well as to temperature per se. We need to continue to develop models of how non-steady-state processes such as global warming and climate change will affect coral reefs.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1476927108000455en_GB
dc.subjectcoral growthen_GB
dc.subjectsymbiosisen_GB
dc.subjectGreat Barrier Reefen_GB
dc.subjectSSTen_GB
dc.subjectscleractinianen_GB
dc.titleClimate change, global warming and coral reefs: modelling the effects of temperatureen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.journalComputational Biology and Chemistryen_GB
html.description.abstractClimate change and global warming have severe consequences for the survival of scleractinian (reef-building) corals and their associated ecosystems. This review summarizes recent literature on the influence of temperature on coral growth, coral bleaching, and modelling the effects of high temperature on corals. Satellite-based sea surface temperature (SST) and coral bleaching information available on the internet is an important tool in monitoring and modelling coral responses to temperature. Within the narrow temperature range for coral growth, corals can respond to rate of temperature change as well as to temperature per se. We need to continue to develop models of how non-steady-state processes such as global warming and climate change will affect coral reefs.


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