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Gardner, Toby A., Côté, Isabelle M., Gill, Jennifer A., Grant, Alastair 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-2375 and Watkinson, Andrew R.
(2003)
Long-term region-wide declines in Caribbean corals.
Science, 301 (5635).
pp. 958-960.
ISSN 0036-8075
Abstract
We report a massive region-wide decline of corals across the entire Caribbean basin, with the average hard coral cover on reefs being reduced by 80%, from about 50% to 10% cover, in three decades. Our meta-analysis shows that patterns of change in coral cover are variable across time periods but largely consistent across subregions, suggesting that local causes have operated with some degree of synchrony on a region-wide scale. Although the rate of coral loss has slowed in the past decade compared to the 1980s, significant declines are persisting. The ability of Caribbean coral reefs to cope with future local and global environmental change may be irretrievably compromised.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas |
| Depositing User: | Vishal Gautam |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2023 08:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/17900 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.1086050 |
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