Understanding and predicting southward range expansions of corals

Project Member(s): Booth, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Environmental Trusts (NSW Environmental Trust Research Grants)

Start year: 2013

Summary: Research to understand how coral reef fishes and corals interact at high latitudes, in temperate SE Australia

Publications:

Matis, PA, Donelson, JM, Bush, S, Fox, RJ & Booth, DJ 2018, 'Temperature influences habitat preference of coral reef fishes: Will generalists become more specialised in a warming ocean?', Global Change Biology, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 3158-3169.
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Keywords: coral reef fish coral temparate reefs habitat association

FOR Codes: Ecology, Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Environments (excl. Social Impacts), Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.