Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/osu-crf060216.php

Public Release: 7-Jun-2016
Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming
Oregon State University

Coral reefs are declining around the world because a combination of factors -- overfishing, nutrient pollution, and pathogenic disease -- ultimately become deadly in the face of higher ocean temperatures, researchers have concluded.

A study published today in Nature Communications, based on one of the largest and longest field experiments done on this topic, suggests that the widespread coral deaths observed in recent decades are being caused by this combination of multiple local stressors and global warming.

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