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SUBMITTER: Frade PR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123414 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frade Pedro R PR Bongaerts Pim P Englebert Norbert N Rogers Alice A Gonzalez-Rivero Manuel M Hoegh-Guldberg Ove O
Nature communications 20180904 1
Our rapidly warming climate is threatening coral reefs as thermal anomalies trigger mass coral bleaching events. Deep (or "mesophotic") coral reefs are hypothesised to act as major ecological refuges from mass bleaching, but empirical assessments are limited. We evaluated the potential of mesophotic reefs within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and adjacent Coral Sea to act as thermal refuges by characterising long-term temperature conditions and assessing impacts during the 2016 mass bleaching even ...[more]