The Coral Holobiont Response to Climate Change

Go to to see all our research projects. Leander Rümmele, Florian Raunecker, Annika Hübner - animation; Lydia Bhattacharya - voice over; Stefan Rümmele - music; Coral reefs make up less than 1% of the ocean floor but are home to about one-quarter of all marine biodiversity. Providing sustenance to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, coral reefs also act as natural shock absorbers, protecting low-lying communities from wave surge. These magnificent ecosystems are however in grave danger due to human-caused climate change that is warming and acidifying the world’s oceans.