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| Title |
Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef
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| Published in |
Science, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.aac7125 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tracy D Ainsworth, Scott F Heron, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Peter J Mumby, Alana Grech, Daisie Ogawa, C Mark Eakin, William Leggat |
| Abstract |
Coral bleaching events threaten the sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Here we show that bleaching events of the past three decades have been mitigated by induced thermal tolerance of reef-building corals, and this protective mechanism is likely to be lost under near-future climate change scenarios. We show that 75% of past thermal stress events have been characterized by a temperature trajectory that subjects corals to a protective, sub-bleaching stress, before reaching temperatures that cause bleaching. Such conditions confer thermal tolerance, decreasing coral cell mortality and symbiont loss during bleaching by over 50%. We find that near-future increases in local temperature of as little as 0.5°C result in this protective mechanism being lost, which may increase the rate of degradation of the GBR. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 244 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 38 | 16% |
| United States | 38 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 5% |
| Canada | 5 | 2% |
| Mexico | 4 | 2% |
| Germany | 4 | 2% |
| Curaçao | 3 | 1% |
| Spain | 3 | 1% |
| India | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 34 | 14% |
| Unknown | 99 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 169 | 69% |
| Scientists | 66 | 27% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 7 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 897 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | <1% |
| Unknown | 873 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 199 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 148 | 16% |
| Researcher | 121 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 118 | 13% |
| Other | 36 | 4% |
| Other | 105 | 12% |
| Unknown | 170 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 269 | 30% |
| Environmental Science | 207 | 23% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 80 | 9% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 70 | 8% |
| Engineering | 14 | 2% |
| Other | 65 | 7% |
| Unknown | 192 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 727. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2024.
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#28,053
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Outputs from Science
#1,245
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Outputs of similar age
#468
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#16
of 1,172 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 83,177 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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