Global calls to save coral reefs from rapid changes due to climate

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Coral reef experts from all over the world are calling for an urgent reassessment of climate targets under growing evidence of the unprecedented speed of change in these ecosystems.

Coral reefs, which have been relatively unchanged for almost 24 million years, are now undergoing profound changes. Some coral reef experts are asking questions about the priorities of coral reef conservation and the coral reef environment in the face of these recent and rapid changes, Which far exceeded expectations.

The problem is that as the world's climate changes, tropical temperatures turn towards the poles, making coral reefs grow in new places. As coral reefs are lost by the warming of the oceans in some places, they grow in previously unhygienic cold water. Ecologists react with it?

This changing picture requires new responses from the scientific community in an attempt to conserve coral reef ecosystems along with services and benefits from food, tourism, coastal protection and ecosystem support.

The scientific community, managers and resource users need to understand and adapt quickly to this changing ecosystem and learn how to manage it, and this will only be possible if carbon emissions are reduced rapidly, experts said.

"This feature of the functional environment of coral reefs is essential, and this pace of change is so fast that it requires revision," said Dr. Gareth Williams of Bangor University.