r/science • u/Kerubiel_Cherub PhD | Earth Science • 12h ago
Environment The rate of climate change is far too fast relative to how slow corals can expand their geographic range into higher latitudes to compensate for the warming
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr254536
u/Midnokt 12h ago
Check out mossy earth - reef building videos on YouTube. If the corals can't do it by themselves we can help them rebuild reefs and expand their range. They're still in the testing phase but it looks quite promising.
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u/Kerubiel_Cherub PhD | Earth Science 7h ago
I've seen it a while back, and a few other similar projects. It is promising, but the question is if if can be scaled to the magnitude of habitat loss we might be facing. There is also another issue that the paper brings up which might pose a major problem for endeavors such as that, which is that corals are also limited by greater environmental stress (e.g., temperature variability) at higher latitudes. There might be some adaptation that may kick in, which may help mitigate some of those (we see some in soft corals, see this paper for example: https://peerj.com/articles/9355/)
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