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The future of evolutionary diversity in reef corals.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 19 Feb 2015
Huang Danwei, Roy Kaustuv
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One-third of the world's reef-building corals are facing heightened extinction risk from climate change and other anthropogenic impacts. Previous studies have shown that such threats are not distributed randomly across the coral tree of life, and future extinctions have the potential to disproportionately reduce the phylogenetic diversity of this group on a global scale. However, the impact of such losses on a...
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