How corals can actually benefit from climate change effects

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 12:30 in Earth & Climate

Researchers from Northeastern University's Marine Science Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that moderate ocean acidification and warming can actually enhance the growth rate of one reef-building coral species. Only under extreme acidification and thermal conditions did calcification decline.

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