Aims & work packages

COR-Resilience aims to reconstruct, quantify and assess past, present, and future impacts of anthropogenically-driven climate change (ocean acidification and global warming), as well as local stressors (e.g. heavy metals, eutrophication, etc.) on the calcification and growth mechanisms of two of the most important reef-building coral genera found in the Indo-Pacific region, Porites sp. & Diploastrea sp. In addition, COR-Resilience will investigate the role of coral-associated microboring flora, which are one of the main contributors to reef dissolution and likely important ectosymbionts (Fine & Loya 2002; Verbuggen & Tribollet 2011; Schönberg et al. 2017; Massé et al. 2018; Tribollet et al. 2019). To achieve this objective, a combined biogeochemical data-modelling approach is proposed.