Sentences with phrase «reef ecosystem response»

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5:10 p.m. Updated below A spirited discussion has built on Dot Earth and elsewhere in response to the potent weekend Op - Ed article by Roger Bradbury of Australian National University challenging hopeful visions of coral reef restoration and calling them «zombie ecosystems» — the living dead — in a human - dominated world.

The ecosystem response of coral reefs to climatic and other disturbances is more complex than predicted by models based largely on temperature anomalies and thresholds only.