Sentences with phrase «slow ecosystem recovery»
One of the expectations climate scientists have for a future including climate change is more droughts in some regions and now a new study in Nature shows that slow ecosystem recovery from those droughts may become more normal too.
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Hurricanes have been observed to cause mechanical damage to coral reefs, including damaging coral tissue and dislodging colonies, weakening corals in ways than could slow recovery following bleaching, and contributing to long - term ecosystem decline [12].
The slow rate of recovery seen in Caribbean reefs [16], [24], [25] suggests that such high levels of mortality may determine the fate of coral reef ecosystems in this region for decades to come.
They defined «recovery» from drought, not as the renewed growth with fresh rainfall, but the slower return of the whole ecosystem to the full productivity it demonstrated before the drought.