Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs

Nancy Knowlton; Jeremy B C Jackson

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060054

Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs

PLoS Biol. 2008 Feb;6(2):e54. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060054.

Authors

Nancy Knowlton¹, Jeremy B C Jackson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America. nknowlton@ucsd.edu

Abstract

The striking health of remote coral reefs provides clear evidence that protection from local overfishing and pollution can help mitigate the impacts of global warming.

MeSH terms

Animals
Anthozoa*
Ecosystem*
Greenhouse Effect
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration