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From:  Restoration and coral adaptation delay, but do not prevent, climate-driven reef framework erosion of an inshore site in the Florida Keys

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Trajectories of degree heating weeks, net carbonate budgets, and accumulated reef height at Cheeca Rocks under two CO2 emission scenarios and across five thermal adaptation levels. The top two panels represent Degree Heating Weeks (DHWs; see methods 3.2) calculated while increasing the bleaching threshold by 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1 and 2˚C under the SSP2-4.5 (in blue) and SSP5-8.5 (in red) scenarios. The dashed line represents the onset threshold (DHW = 8) of annual severe bleaching. The middle panels illustrate the projected mean net community calcification (in kg m−2 yr−1) across the six transects at Cheeca Rocks. The blue and red shaded areas depict the standard deviation from the mean for the SSP2-4.5 and the SSP5-8.5 scenarios respectively and the horizontal grey lines represent the threshold (NCC = 0) when carbonate budgets become negative. The bottom panels depict the mean accumulated height calculated from the sum of past Reef Accretion Potential (RAPmax; see methods 3.3). The horizontal grey line represents the present reef height.

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