resilience of reefs goes down, while it becomes easier for them to erode and dissolve. In addition, the increase in CO₂ allows herbivore overfishing and nutrification to change coral-dominated ecosystems to algal-dominated ecosystems. A recent study from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future found that with the combination of acidification and temperature rises, the levels of CO₂ could become too high for coral to survive in as little as 50 years.

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