Came across this article in The Washington Post by Bjorn Lomborg – read
it all. A glib summary of the article would simply be…..if climate change
gets the blame for more extreme weather, why doesn’t it also get credit
for less extreme weather periods (such as this rather calm hurricane season)?
I love […]
The Great Barrier reef off the east coast of Australia.
The BBC reports on the future of Coral Reefs. Worth a quick read.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23773672
Global distribution of Mangrove forests. Note their very limited distribution and extent.
Mangrove forests are one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet. They are also one of the smallest and most threatened. A new (and short) […]
Tribune story today here. And saw another news story of interest today,
this one on the Andros-based Agriculture and Marine Science Institute that
is in development.
A recent study found that glass sponges, ranging in size from a human fist to a small car, have had a recent population explosion in Antarctic waters. This population boom has take place since the collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf. The tremendous increase in light coinciding with increased sea temperatures, […]
No need to go to conferences when you have Jonathan Losos around. He does an
amazing job of posting details on some of his favorite talks. Here and here are posts
from Bahamas-based studies presented at the annual Evolution conference,
one of the most important conferences in our field each year.
UPDATE: […]
The flux of sediments to reefs begins in the uplands
A recently published article in Nature Communications uses a land-use modeling exercise to address how future deforestation interacts with climate change to affect sedimentation rates on coastal reefs in Madagascar. In summary they find that while […]
A recent focus piece in Science reviews the function and fate of coral reef ecosystems. The language is accessible to non-scientists, so it’s worth a read for those who want to be up-to-date on the issues regarding coral reefs.
A recent paper by Perry et al. contrasts historical rates of calcium carbonate production (the hard part of corals) with current ones. Their finding raise additional concern about the future of Caribbean reefs. In particular, if the cover of live corals dips below 10%, the recovery of reefs appears unlikely due to the increasingly antagonistic conditions for coral reef […]