US EditionRecord Florida Heatwave Renders Coral Species 'Functionally Extinct'
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Record Florida heatwave renders coral species 'functionally extinct'
Data from NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef.
Record 2023 heatwave left two Florida coral species extinct, research shows
Two corals off the Florida coast are now functionally extinct after a 2023 heatwave, according to new research published in Science. One researcher said he’s heartbroken at the loss and this is a start warning for the future of coral reefs. The staghorn and elkhorn corals look like the antlers of stags and elks. They are functionally extinct—meaning there are not enough of the species left to sustain themselves. Ross Cunning is a research bio…
In the Florida Keys, corals have died out because they no longer stood up to warming. That alone is not beautiful, but much worse: The event marks the first climate tip point that has now irreversibly occurred The moose and the deer antler corals look like, now, moose and deer antlers. For more than 10,000 years, they have formed the majority of the 560-kilometre-long coral reef of the Florida Keys between the USA and Cuba, which means as much a…
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