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Day: 24 October 2025

Florida’s Coral Reef Crossed a Line: What Functional Extinction Really Means for Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals

A bleached and dead staghorn coral thicket in the Dry Tortugas, already being overgrown by seaweed in September 2023. The corals had been healthy a few months earlier, but not anymore thanks to the Florida coral reef functional extinction.

Reefs didn’t just bleach. They functionally vanished in one summer. A new Science study co-authored by researchers from the Perry Institute for Marine Science (PIMS) has found that Florida’s two […]

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