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Corals most important for building reefs now in sharp decline

2016-04-23 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: A new study has found that the very corals responsible for establishing today's reefs are now some of the most threatened coral species due to climate change and other human-made stressors. Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at the University of Queensland (UQ) says the fast-growing, reef-building, branching Acropora, or 'staghorn', corals are responsible for the vast amount of modern reef growth. Although they have been around for at least...

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