image: Two Critically Endangered coral species: Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) and Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) at Roatán, Honduras.
Credit: Christi Linardich, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Atlantic corals may be even more at risk of extinction than previously thought, per updated assessment classifying almost 1 in 3 species as Critically Endangered
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Article Title: Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats
Author Countries: U.S., Switzerland, Kenya, U.K., Costa Rica, Mexico, Qatar, Italy, The Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Croatia, France, Venezuela, South Africa, Israel
Funding: DO; National Geographic Species Recovery Grant, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ BP; New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, https://newcollege.asu.edu/ FCB; Zoological Society of London, https://www.zsl.org/ BP; IUCN Species Survival Commission, https://iucn.org/our-union/commissions/iucn-species-survival-commission-2021-2025 BP; The MSC Foundation, https://www.mscfoundation.org/ EP; Eurofins Foundation, https://www.eurofins.com/eurofins-foundation/ None of the listed funders played a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish nor preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS ONE
Article Title
Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats
Article Publication Date
13-Nov-2024
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.