Acidification of oceans affects all species that possess calcium carbonate, corals and calcareous algae are among the most vulnerable groups and important for the diversity of fauna and flora they harbor. I need to help me in Cuban articles about corals that declare their geographical location, the type of training they have and their depth How do you think that climate change affects the different formations at different depths? Will it be the same between protected and unprotected areas?
I have a paper on the effects of climate change on a zooanthid species, Palythoa caribaeorum, have a look (Durante et al 2018 peerJ).
Different species will be affected in different ways. For P. caribaeorum for example it will thrive where most of other corals do not do really well, making some areas suitable for this species under climate change due to lack of competition.
Its important to understando that, when you are looking at ciral communities, climate change is only athe start factor, what will decide the final community composition is the competition outcome between species.
Cuba is an area that will be mostly suitable for coral species until we reach the maximum teperature threshold or start having dramatic climate events, like hurricanes
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