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Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef (Credit: Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies)

Not exact matches

SYDNEY (AP)-- Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of the coral in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, scientists said on Monday.

The latest figures on the coral death from recent bleaching events are also higher than predicted, with further coral decline expected in 2017, according to Russell Reichelt, Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

The 2016 bleaching event resulted in 30 % mortality on the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals dying of the heat before they bleached and the loss of branching corals creating less complex reef structure.

Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light on how it changed a coral's community of algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur more frequently in the future.

Cinner and McClanahan have found that different places felt different effects of coral bleaching based on how much people depended on fish and tourism for a living and how flexible the local people were.

These high - resolution projections, based on global climate models, predict when and where annual coral bleaching will occur.

The latest estimate from Hughes's center, released on May 30, suggests that this year's bleaching has killed 35 % of corals at 84 survey sites on the northern and central Great Barrier Reef.

If emission reductions exceed pledges made by countries to date under the Paris Agreement, coral reefs would have another 11 years, on average, to adapt to warming seas before they are hit by annual bleaching.

Researchers examining the impact of climate change on coral reefs have found a way to predict which reefs are likely to recover following bleaching episodes and which won't.

Between 2014 and 2016, the world witnessed the longest global bleaching event ever recorded, which killed coral on an unprecedented scale.

Those seeking a «last chance experience» were also more likely to be concerned about the health of the reef — in particular coral bleaching and climate change, both of which, incidentally, would have an effect on a tourist's experience of the site.

The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow - motion disasters, with knock - on effects for years

On average, it takes coral three to four years to recover from bleaching.

A new study by a Florida State University biologist shows that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

Biologists have shown that bleaching events brought on by rising sea temperatures are having a detrimental long - term impact on coral.

This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some areas, coral bleaching caused by global warming, and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.

Global warming, coupled with an intense El Nino, continues to make this the longest and most widespread coral bleaching event on record.

On the east coast, coral reef bleaching, heat waves and increased hurricane intensity are just some of the warming - related hazards Floridians have had to deal with in recent years.

Based on a massive amount of historical data, the index can be used to compare the bleaching responses of corals throughout the world and to predict which corals may be most affected by future bleaching events.

The global index, representing close to half the world's corals from 316 sites, is an impressive feat of data science: It emerged from a meta - analysis of all available historical records on coral bleaching from 1982 through 2006 — the «sum of human knowledge on species - specific bleaching during this period,» according to Swain.

As shown here, there is extensive bleaching of hard and soft corals at Moore Reef following sustained heat stress in March 2017 on Great Barrier Reef.

BABY FAT Young cauliflower corals may rely on fat reserves, not algae, for food and therefore could be less sensitive to bleaching than adult corals (shown here), researchers propose.

Traditionally, scientists have been studying recovery in terms of decades — but climate projections suggest that, on average, severe coral bleaching will become a yearly occurrence by mid-century under «business as usual» and for some reefs this will be far sooner.

In contrast to reefs across the globe, which have suffered severe and continuing damage due to the combined effects of climate change and local disturbances, the researchers found that the coral communities on most of the reefs they looked at had recovered rapidly from this major «bleaching» event.

A researcher accesses minor damage at Day Reef on the Great Barrier Reef following the March 2016 mass coral bleaching event.

Scientists are surveying the continuing aftermath of the worst coral bleaching event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.

«Major disturbances such as cyclones, coral bleaching, climate change, Crown of Thorns Starfish and river run - off are thought to be the primary agents of change on the Great Barrier Reef,» says study co-author, Professor Mike Kingsford from the Coralcoral bleaching, climate change, Crown of Thorns Starfish and river run - off are thought to be the primary agents of change on the Great Barrier Reef,» says study co-author, Professor Mike Kingsford from the CoralCoral CoE.

On the other hand, in the case of another disruptive event, such as coral bleaching, the Keramas» corals can not guarantee the recovery of the affected areas.

A colony of the soft coral known as the «bent sea rod» stands bleached on a reef off of Islamorada, Florida.

Some individual reefs not previously exposed to bleaching stress at all missed out on the «practice run» this time, suggesting that the damage to the corals on those reefs could be even greater.

Coral bleaching is currently underway in the Florida Keys, highlighting the real - time impact that warmer ocean temperatures are having on reefs.

The continued warming of tropical oceans is likely to cause stresses on ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, and stronger tropical cyclones.

During its reign, this El Niño boosted rainfall California, hastened coral bleaching and helped make 2015 the hottest year on record.

Based on temperature projections, NOAA predicts that 38 per cent of coral reefs will experience bleaching this year.

Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef, Science.

Extensive coral bleaching (white / yellow patches) documented on the Great Barrier Reef during aerial surveys in March 2016.

Back - to - back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 killed one in every two corals on the Great Barrier Reef.

Abstract: Thermal stress from the 2015 - 2016 El Niño triggered the worst global bleaching and mass coral mortality event on record.

Rising ocean temperatures are proving detrimental to both ocean species and coral reefs, with the impact on coral perhaps most noticeably seen in bleaching.

Suggestions to read in today's digest are: a review about microbiological methods applied in studies following the deepwater horizon oil spill by S.Zhang, a paper by W. Pootakham on dynamics of coral ‐ associated microbiomes during a thermal bleaching event and a paper by X. Jiang on a novel auxotrophic interaction among soil microbes.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), and Western Australian Marine Science Institution have examined the impact of the 2016 mass bleaching event on reefs in Western Australia (WA).

The success of excavating sponges depended on the intensity of coral bleaching and consequent coral mortality.

Clade D Symbiodinium are present in higher abundances on some reefs than others, and these are often reefs exposed to relatively high levels of thermal stress or local stressors (e.g., sedimentation on reefs) with a history of coral bleaching.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

Patterns of disease, tissue loss and bleaching have been described on coral reefs worldwide and are increasing under increased environmental pressures.

In addition to ocean acidification, coral bleaching is another threat facing corals on a warmer planet.

On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a Coral Bleaching Outlook that forecasts the amount of bleaching that may result from ocean warming in the next four months, and the outlook iBleaching Outlook that forecasts the amount of bleaching that may result from ocean warming in the next four months, and the outlook ibleaching that may result from ocean warming in the next four months, and the outlook is gloomy.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warn that the continued rise in ocean temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic is causing the massive coral bleaching on reefs in the Northern Hemisphere.

Critically, the time between bleaching events is now as short as six years, which is insufficient time for full recovery of coral cover on damaged reefs.»