supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA05080300);Important Direction Project of Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-138);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40830852 and 41025007);Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Projects (Grant Nos. 2007CB8015905 and 2006BAB19B03)
Rising atmospheric CO2 and warming of the global climate that have occurred since the industrial revolution are regarded as fatal threats to coral reefs. We analyzed the skeletal calcification rate of 14 massive Porit...