ENSO Drove 2500-Year Collapse of Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Toth, Lauren T., Aronson, Richard B., Vollmer, Steven V., Hobbs, Jennifer W., Urrego, Dunia H., Cheng, Hai, Enochs, Ian C., Combosch, David J., van Woesik, Robert, Macintyre, Ian G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012
• Subjects: Pacific; Toth; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1221168; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1221168

A Long Collapse Coral reefs are threatened by global warming and ocean acidification, and so it is important to understand better how and why environmental changes have affected them in the past. Toth et al. (p. 81 ) present a 6000-year-long record of coral reefs off the coast of Panama, Central Ame...