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SUMMARY:Corals and Coral reefs under ocean acidification and climate chang
 e
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Maoz Fine\, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sc
 iences\, Bar-Ilan University\, Israel\nAbstract:\nOngoing ocean acidificat
 ion (OA) and global warming are rapidly altering the environment in which 
 coral reefs developed for millions of years. Changes in the carbonate chem
 istry\, photosynthesis and microbial community associated with corals may 
 impact the health of corals and their ability to participate in reef build
 ing. Furthermore\, this influences the ecological performance of corals (s
 uch as competition) and their resistance to potential pathogens.  Diverse
 \, often contrasting\, responses of reef-building corals calcification and
  photosynthesis to OA and climate change hinder our ability to decipher re
 ef susceptibility to elevated pCO2. Different life strategies and physiolo
 gical characteristics and consequently different responses of corals to en
 vironmental change may cause vast changes in reef functionality. In some c
 ases\, ecological shifts rather than physiological responses are the bigge
 st threat to these unique ecosystems.Short biography:\nMaoz Fine is a prof
 essor of Ecology at Bar-Ilan University\, and the Interuniversity Institut
 e for Marine Science in Eilat\, Israel.\nProf. Fine performed his PhD at T
 el Aviv University under the supervision of the renowned coral reef ecolog
 ist Yossi Loya. He then left Israel to undertake research in the Australia
 n Great Barrier Reef as a post-doctoral fellow at prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
  lab at the University of Queensland. He returned in 2004 to take a facult
 y position at Bar-Ilan University.
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