Pacific in peril: biological, economic and social impacts of climate change on Pacific coral reefs / by O Hoegh Guldgerg...[et al.]

Abstract

Climate change may be the single most important challenge to human societies in the 21st century. Changes to the environmental factors that govern the eartM biological systems have flow-on effects for almost ever)' aspect of human societies. Coral reef ecosystems are especially susceptible to climate change and recent predictions have suggested that coral reefs will be seriously degraded by the changing conditions of the worlds tropical oceans.