Coral reefs worldwide, and the services they provide, are seriously threatened by anthropogenic climate change and its impacts, including ocean acidification and coral bleaching. Here, we present global projections for these key coral reef threats. The projections are based on ensembles of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) climate models using experiments with selected Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) .

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The methods and names of the models used in the projections can be found here.

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This research was made possible by a grant from the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative to the authors of van Hooidonk et al. (2014).