Cumulative impacts across Australia's Great Barrier Reef: A mechanistic evaluation
Y.-M. Bozec, K. Hock, R. A. B. Mason, M. E. Baird, C. Castro-Sanguino, S. A. Condie, M. Puotinen, A. Thompson, P. J. Mumby
The paper evaluates cumulative impacts on the Great Barrier Reef by simulating coral demographics and stressor effects across 2,300 km of reef, finding coral cover declined by one third from 2008-2020 with bleaching as the primary driver.
bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2020Ecology