Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction

David O. Obura, Beth Polidoro, Francoise Cabada-Blanco, Christi Linardich, Nick Carpenter, Luis Gutierrez, Krista Kemppinen, Emma Pettersson, Kyle Strongin, Greta Aeby, Khatija Alliji, Juan Jose Alvarado, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Pilar Casado de Amezua, Anastazia Banaszak, Daniel T. I. Bayley, Joanna K. Bluemel, Jorge Cortés, Elena Couce, Benjamin Cowburn, M. James C. Crabbe, Aldo Croquer, Walter Dellisanti, Lyndon DeVantier, Alasdair Edwards, Joshua Feingold, Hagen M. Gegner, Elizabeth Goergen, Stefano Goffredo, Bert W. Hoeksema, Danwei Huang, Jack Johnson, Emma Kennedy, Diego K. Kersting, Sun W. Kim, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Petar Kružić, Claire J. Lewis, Wilfredo Y. Licuanan, Katrina S. Luzon, Margaret W. Miller, Anthony D. Montgomery, Joanna Murray, Chin Soon Lionel Ng, Flavia Nunes, C. Isabel Nuñez-Lendo, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Sean N. Porter, Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Pedro Range, Zoe Richards, Andrea Rivera-Sosa, Ronan Roche, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Gregorio de la Rosa, Kathryn Rosell, Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Nadia Santodomingo, Tom Shlesinger, Michael Sweet, Emre Turak, Ruben van Hooidonk, Mark Vermeij, Estrella Villamizar, Zarinah Waheed, Bryan Wilson

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10.1038/s41586-026-11263-3
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2026-10-15
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@article{allodium:10.1038/s41586-026-11263-3,
  title = {Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction},
  author = {David O. Obura and Beth Polidoro and Francoise Cabada-Blanco and Christi Linardich and Nick Carpenter and Luis Gutierrez and Krista Kemppinen and Emma Pettersson and Kyle Strongin and Greta Aeby and Khatija Alliji and Juan Jose Alvarado and Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip and Pilar Casado de Amezua and Anastazia Banaszak and Daniel T. I. Bayley and Joanna K. Bluemel and Jorge Cortés and Elena Couce and Benjamin Cowburn and M. James C. Crabbe and Aldo Croquer and Walter Dellisanti and Lyndon DeVantier and Alasdair Edwards and Joshua Feingold and Hagen M. Gegner and Elizabeth Goergen and Stefano Goffredo and Bert W. Hoeksema and Danwei Huang and Jack Johnson and Emma Kennedy and Diego K. Kersting and Sun W. Kim and Marcelo Visentini Kitahara and Petar Kružić and Claire J. Lewis and Wilfredo Y. Licuanan and Katrina S. Luzon and Margaret W. Miller and Anthony D. Montgomery and Joanna Murray and Chin Soon Lionel Ng and Flavia Nunes and C. Isabel Nuñez-Lendo and Paul Pearce-Kelly and Sean N. Porter and Juan Pablo Quimbayo and Pedro Range and Zoe Richards and Andrea Rivera-Sosa and Ronan Roche and Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez and Gregorio de la Rosa and Kathryn Rosell and Kaveh Samimi-Namin and Nadia Santodomingo and Tom Shlesinger and Michael Sweet and Emre Turak and Ruben van Hooidonk and Mark Vermeij and Estrella Villamizar and Zarinah Waheed and Bryan Wilson},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Nature},
  doi = {10.1038/s41586-026-11263-3},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11263-3}
}

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AU  - Juan Jose Alvarado
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AU  - Joanna K. Bluemel
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AU  - Elena Couce
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AU  - Aldo Croquer
AU  - Walter Dellisanti
AU  - Lyndon DeVantier
AU  - Alasdair Edwards
AU  - Joshua Feingold
AU  - Hagen M. Gegner
AU  - Elizabeth Goergen
AU  - Stefano Goffredo
AU  - Bert W. Hoeksema
AU  - Danwei Huang
AU  - Jack Johnson
AU  - Emma Kennedy
AU  - Diego K. Kersting
AU  - Sun W. Kim
AU  - Marcelo Visentini Kitahara
AU  - Petar Kružić
AU  - Claire J. Lewis
AU  - Wilfredo Y. Licuanan
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APA

Obura, D. O., Polidoro, B., Cabada-Blanco, F., Linardich, C., Carpenter, N., Gutierrez, L., Kemppinen, K., Pettersson, E., Strongin, K., Aeby, G., Alliji, K., Alvarado, J. J., Alvarez-Filip, L., Amezua, P. C. D., Banaszak, A., Bayley, D. T. I., Bluemel, J. K., Cortés, J., Couce, E., Cowburn, B., Crabbe, M. J. C., Croquer, A., Dellisanti, W., DeVantier, L., Edwards, A., Feingold, J., Gegner, H. M., Goergen, E., Goffredo, S., Hoeksema, B. W., Huang, D., Johnson, J., Kennedy, E., Kersting, D. K., Kim, S. W., Kitahara, M. V., Kružić, P., Lewis, C. J., Licuanan, W. Y., Luzon, K. S., Miller, M. W., Montgomery, A. D., Murray, J., Ng, C. S. L., Nunes, F., Nuñez-Lendo, C. I., Pearce-Kelly, P., Porter, S. N., Quimbayo, J. P., Range, P., Richards, Z., Rivera-Sosa, A., Roche, R., Rodríguez-Martínez, R. E., Rosa, G. D. L., Rosell, K., Samimi-Namin, K., Santodomingo, N., Shlesinger, T., Sweet, M., Turak, E., Hooidonk, R. V., Vermeij, M., Villamizar, E., Waheed, Z., & Wilson, B. (2026). Nearly half of reef-building corals face elevated relative risk of extinction. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11263-3

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