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Scientists: FL coral crisis demands genetic rescue and climate action

In response to research confirming their collapse, this fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has taken ...

Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide

New research reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef. Scientists have documented ...

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...

What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them “shocked” — and devastated

“What we saw happen was an extreme heat wave where conditions surpassed the thresholds of survival of a whole, entire species ...
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Staghorn corals of the world : a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and ...

"The book is complemented by a CD-ROM [Staghorn corals of the world, a key to species of Acropora] containing a LucID-based key to all species of Acropora and a photo library of type specimens from ...

'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead

In Florida, two key coral species responsible for building coral reefs have been killed off because of extreme ocean heat, a ...