Dr Sally Wood, from the Coral Reef Research at Bristol (CRAB) group in the School of Earth Sciences and lead author of the paper, explains: «
Coral build the framework of tropical coral reefs, creating habitats which support one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth.
Using this
framework, we assessed the climate change vulnerability of each of the world's birds (9,856 species), amphibians (6,204 species) and warm - water reef -
building corals (797 species).