Title |
Coping with Commitment: Projected Thermal Stress on Coral Reefs under Different Future Scenarios
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2009
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005712 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Simon D. Donner |
Abstract |
Periods of anomalously warm ocean temperatures can lead to mass coral bleaching. Past studies have concluded that anthropogenic climate change may rapidly increase the frequency of these thermal stress events, leading to declines in coral cover, shifts in the composition of corals and other reef-dwelling organisms, and stress on the human populations who depend on coral reef ecosystems for food, income and shoreline protection. The ability of greenhouse gas mitigation to alter the near-term forecast for coral reefs is limited by the time lag between greenhouse gas emissions and the physical climate response. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Peru | 1 | 33% |
Australia | 1 | 33% |
Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 2 | 67% |
Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 396 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 12 | 3% |
Mexico | 6 | 2% |
Australia | 5 | 1% |
Brazil | 4 | 1% |
Germany | 3 | <1% |
Malaysia | 3 | <1% |
Kenya | 2 | <1% |
Canada | 2 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Other | 9 | 2% |
Unknown | 349 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 84 | 21% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 74 | 19% |
Student > Master | 50 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 47 | 12% |
Other | 27 | 7% |
Other | 72 | 18% |
Unknown | 42 | 11% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 146 | 37% |
Environmental Science | 110 | 28% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 35 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 10 | 3% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 2% |
Other | 33 | 8% |
Unknown | 54 | 14% |