A bleached reef-building coral of the genus Porites. (IMAGE)

Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)

A bleached reef-building coral of the genus Porites.

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A bleached reef-building coral of the genus Porites. These coral species are important builders of most reefs in the entire Indo-Pacific region. Due to increasingly prolonged heat waves and more extreme temperatures, corals and thus marine ecosystems in the tropics are already on the verge of collapse.

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A. Roik

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