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Harris, P.T. | Bridge, T. | Beaman, R. | Webster, J. | Nichol, S.
Abstract
Anthropogenic global ocean warming is predicted to cause bleaching of many near-sea-surface (NSS) coral reefs and could make deep-water, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) into coral reef 'life boats', for many coral species. The question arises: how common are MCE's in comparison to NSS reefs? We used a dataset from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) to show that only about 37% of available bank surface area is colonised by NSS coral reefs (16,110 km2); the other 63% of submerged bank area (25,599 km2) represents potential MCE habitat and it is spatially distributed along the GBR continental shelf in direct proportion to NSS coral reefs. Out of 25,599 km2 of submerged bank area, predictive habitat modelling indicates that about 52% (13,000 km2) is MCE habitat.
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- External PublicationScientific Journal Paper
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- geomorphology
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- habitat
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- marine park
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- seabed
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- CERF
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- marine
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- Earth Sciences
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