Big team science in my home state of Florida. Awe inspiring but tragic. In a moment of a mass bleaching crisis, 47 researchers across 22 institutions helped document the functional extinction of elkhorn and staghorn corals from Florida's Coral Reef doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral ReefIn 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...doi.org