Climate Change, Coral Bleaching And The Future Of The World'S Coral Reefs

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Kayla K

 

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December 7, 2013

 

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Reefbuilding corals, which are central to healthy coral reefs, are currently living close to their upper thermal limit. They become stressed if exposed to small slight increases (1-2oC) in water temperature and experience coral bleaching. Coral bleaching occurs when the photosynthetic symbionts of corals (zooxanthellae) become increasing vulnerable to damage by light at higher than normal temperatures...
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The resulting damage leads to the expulsion of these important organisms from the coral host. Corals tend to die in great numbers immediately following coral bleaching events, which may stretch across thousands of square kilometers of ocean. Bleaching events in 1998, the worst on record, saw the complete loss of live coral from reefs in some parts of the world...
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