Differential vulnerability to climate change yields novel deep-reef communities

Differential vulnerability to climate change yields novel deep-reef communities

Differential vulnerability to climate change yields novel deep-reef communities, Published online: 24 September 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0278-7

Deep reefs and their inhabitants are diverse, but environmental change, in particular warming, will cause these reefs found along southeastern Australia to tropicalize with different responses across functional groups, resulting in novel communities by the 2060s.