Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs
Open Access
- 26 February 2008
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (2), e54
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060054
Abstract
The striking health of remote coral reefs provides clear evidence that protection from local overfishing and pollution can help mitigate the impacts of global warming.Keywords
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