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Rising seawater temperatures worldwide may cause reef coral species to shift their geographical range towards cooler environments. Information on such shifts, however, remains scarce. We reported a population expansion of scleractinian coral Porites sverdrupi (endemic and threatened species of the Gulf of California) associated to cold ENSO events in 2008 and 2011.
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Our findings show that events of local extinction and contraction of the distribution range of this scleractinian coral species is related to warm ENSO events (1982 and 2010), while expansion occurred after cold ENSO events in 2008 and 2011.
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This page is a summary of: New record of the endemic coral Porites sverdrupi (Gulf of California): do fluctuations in seawater temperature regulate its southernmost range limit?, Marine Biodiversity, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-015-0375-z.
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