Upwelling areas do not guarantee refuge for coral reefs in a warming ocean

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作者
Chollett, Iliana [1 ,2 ]
Mumby, Peter J. [1 ,2 ]
Cortes, Jorge [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Exeter, Sch Biosci, Hatherly Lab, Marine Spatial Ecol Lab, Exeter EX4 4PS, Devon, England
[2] Univ Queensland, Sch Biol Sci, Marine Spatial Ecol Lab, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
[3] Univ Costa Rica, Ctr Invest Ciencias Mar & Limnol, San Jose 115012060, Costa Rica
[4] Univ Costa Rica, Escuela Biol, San Jose 115012060, Costa Rica
关键词
Coral reef; Upwelling; Bleaching; Climate change; Sea surface temperature; AVHRR; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; 1997-98; EL-NINO; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; INDIAN-OCEAN; WATER; MORTALITY;
D O I
10.3354/meps08775
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Global warming is a severe threat to coral reefs. It has been proposed that upwelling could minimise the thermal stress caused by ocean warming, and therefore upwelling areas may serve as a refuge for corals. Here, using 21 yr of satellite sea surface temperature data, we analysed the degree to which the thermal stress experienced by corals is reduced in 4 seasonal upwelling areas with reef development: Colombia in the southern Caribbean, Panama in the eastern tropical Pacific, Oman in the Arabian Sea and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Upwelling areas do not always offer protection from thermal stress. When compared with nearby non-upwelling areas, upwelling can only provide defence against warming events if: (1) the threat and the upwelling coincide, and (2) this overlap produces a meaningful decrease in thermal stress in upwelling areas. These conditions were met in only 2 of the 4 upwelling areas analysed: Colombia and Oman. In Oman, upwelling decreased the magnitude, frequency and duration of thermal disturbances (identified when Coral Bleaching HotSpots, anomalies exceeding the average temperature of the warmest month, are larger than 1 C), while in Colombia upwelling only decreased their frequency. The protective role of upwelling seems to be limited geographically; therefore, further upwelling areas need to be assessed individually in order to evaluate their capacity as a refuge from thermal stress.
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