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Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef

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The record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave has killed nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies, marking the species’ functional extinction in Florida’s Coral Reef, researchers report in Science. The findings sound a dire warning for the future of coral ecosystems in our rapidly warming oceans.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx7825

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