Workshop on Coral Bleaching, Coral Reef Ecosystems, and Global Climate Change

珊瑚白化、珊瑚礁生态系统和全球气候变化研讨会

• 批准号: 9113115
• 负责人: Christopher D'Elia
• 金额: $ 8.38万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1993-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9113115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Coral; Bleaching; Reef; Ecosystems

Coral reefs are geologically ancient ecosystems that have provided excellent historical evidence of global climatic changes and some of the best indications extant of ecosystem response to such changes. Yet coral reefs are believed by some to be indicators of global climate change in more than just the historical sense. There has been considerable recent speculation in the press, discussion among reef researchers, and testimony on the topic of coral "bleaching," a phenomenon that some interpret as a stress reaction of reef corals to elevated sea surface temperature (SST's) caused by global climate change. This interpretation has been met with considerable skepticism from many in the scientific community, yet it has nonetheless captured considerable attention in the press and in Congress. Coral bleaching is a possible present indicator of climate change. This workshop will meet a critical need to assess the state of our knowledge about coral bleaching and, in the larger sense, to determine research needs for the next decade for understanding the effects of potential global climate change on shallow water tropical marine ecosystems such as coral reefs.

珊瑚礁是地质上古老的生态系统，它为全球气候变化提供了出色的历史证据，以及生态系统对这种变化的反应的最佳迹象。 然而，某些人认为珊瑚礁是全球气候变化的指标，而不仅仅是历史意义。 媒体上有很多猜测，礁研究人员之间的讨论以及关于珊瑚“漂白”主题的证词，这种现象有些将某些现象解释为珊瑚礁珊瑚对由于全球气候变化引起的升高海面温度（SST）的压力反应。 这种解释已经引起了科学界的许多人的相当怀疑，但它在媒体和国会中仍引起了很大的关注。 珊瑚漂白是气候变化的当前指标。 该研讨会将满足评估我们对珊瑚漂白的了解的状态的迫切需求，从更大的意义上讲，为了确定未来十年的研究需求，以理解潜在的全球气候变化对浅水热带海洋生态系统（如珊瑚礁）的影响。