Great Barrier Reef coral predicted to last at least 100 years before extinction from climate change

Model predicts rapid adaptation of corals despite increasingly severe bleaching events, but corals' more distant future remains uncertain

Date:

April 19, 2018

Source:

PLOS

Summary:

A common Great Barrier Reef coral species has enough genetic diversity to survive at least 100 years before succumbing to global warming, researchers predict.

Great Barrier Reef coral predicted to last at least 100 years before extinction from climate change.

Credit: Mikhail V. Matz and colleagues

A common Great Barrier Reef coral species has enough genetic diversity to survive at least 100 years before succumbing to global warming predicts Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues. They report these findings in a new study published April 19th, 2018 in PLOS Genetics.