13 July, 2016

Australia's 'underwater forests' killed by heat wave

Underwater heat waves now ravaging the Great Barrier Reef's corals killed off kelp forests along Australia's southern and south-western coast five years ago, according to new research.

"Some of the same types of drivers are behind all of this, and I think this really emphasizes the manifestation of these climate-driven events; it's more than just the coral reefs that are being affected by this," said Thomas Wernberg, a marine biologist at the University of Western Australia who led the new research, which appeared Thursday in the journal Science. Twenty-one other authors from institutions in Australia and abroad collaborated.

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