Comments on: Reefs recovering http://blog.fragd.it/2008/08/03/reefs-recovering/ Reefs, coral, fish and aquariums. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: jeff http://blog.fragd.it/2008/08/03/reefs-recovering/comment-page-1/#comment-316 jeff Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:57:21 +0000 http://blog.fragd.it/?p=112#comment-316 No, I'm not saying we can sit back and relax. I posted the article for some positive news about the environment for a change. Nice site, btw. I'm spending some time now checking it out. No, I’m not saying we can sit back and relax. I posted the article for some positive news about the environment for a change.

Nice site, btw. I’m spending some time now checking it out.

]]> By: Rick MacPherson http://blog.fragd.it/2008/08/03/reefs-recovering/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Rick MacPherson Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:11:17 +0000 http://blog.fragd.it/?p=112#comment-309 i was in florida at the icrs and enjoyed gregs presentation on reef check data from indonesia... but before we sit back and relax, it's also important to include a warning that was also part of his summary: “Looking ahead several decades, a combination of threats – global warming, seawater acidification, and overfishing that are destabilizing coral reef ecosystems – raise the risk of extinction. While the Caribbean has the largest proportion of corals in high extinction risk categories, the Coral Triangle (which includes Indonesian reefs) has the highest proportion of species in all categories of elevated extinction risk." put another way, not all reefs measure their losses the same way... one square meter of indonesian reef has almost an order of magnitude more species than its caribbean counterpart... i was in florida at the icrs and enjoyed gregs presentation on reef check data from indonesia… but before we sit back and relax, it’s also important to include a warning that was also part of his summary:

“Looking ahead several decades, a combination of threats – global warming, seawater acidification, and overfishing that are destabilizing coral reef ecosystems – raise the risk of extinction. While the Caribbean has the largest proportion of corals in high extinction risk categories, the Coral Triangle (which includes Indonesian reefs) has the highest proportion of species in all categories of elevated extinction risk.”

put another way, not all reefs measure their losses the same way… one square meter of indonesian reef has almost an order of magnitude more species than its caribbean counterpart…

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