Sentences with phrase «affected by coral»

While some areas of the Great Barrier Reef have been affected by coral bleaching, or other natural events such as cyclones, others have not.

Right now, 93 % of the reef is affected by coral bleaching due to environmental changes like the rising temperature of the ocean water.

Cultural values of many tropical island communities (e.g., religious sites and traditional uses of marine resources) depend upon healthy coral reef ecosystems and can be adversely affected by coral bleaching.

Observing the reefs in Maui, which have been greatly affected by coral bleaching due to climate change, scientists said the massive bleaching have resulted to the reef's vulnerability to algae colonization.

Not exact matches

Scientific research has shown that both oxybenzone and octinoxate destroy coral by absorbing its nutrients, affecting coral - dependent marine life like sea urchins and algae.

They've studied how coral bleaching caused by the 1998 El Niño affected communities in the western Indian Ocean.

«We were able to follow this coral at a very high precision and document how diverse assemblages of symbiotic algae are differently affected by the bleaching phenomenon,» Kemp said.

A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), sheds light on the ways SGD affects coral reef growth.

Coral reefs, which are already under threat from overfishing and tourism, are especially vulnerable to climate change because they are easily affected by warm water.

Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño eCoral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño ecoral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño event.

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.

«Millions of coastal people in the tropics have been affected by the global coral bleaching event that unfolded over the previous two years.

But by 2016, all had been hit by at least one bleaching event, and all but six had suffered a severe event — defined as affecting more than 30 percent of corals in an area.

«Research has identified variation in how reefs and corals are affected by thermal stress events in different locations.

By manipulating the acidity of the Biosphere 2 ocean and measuring the resulting growth rates in coral between 1996 and 2003, Langdon proved that ocean acidification from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide would radically affect calcium carbonate — shelled marine life (pdf).

Eakin says that by watching the temperature of the water and looking at how much coral actually dies off — and which species are most affected — researchers will get a sense of whether or not corals are adapting to the increased frequency of bleaching.

Strontium levels in coral skeletons are affected by ocean temperatures.

«At current emission rates models suggest that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or potentially even earlier,» they wrote.

Interestingly, events early in the life history of corals, prior to the initiation of calcification, such as fertilization, embryogenesis, larval survival and settlement are not overly affected by high acidity.

The projects aims to give us further knowledge in areas as diverse as coral reefs ecosystem, the dietary composition in wildlife and domestic animals over the last 50 000 years, the effects of antibiotic exposure on microbial ecosystems, and changes in biodiversity that might have an effect on or are affected by climate change.

A new study published in the international journal Nature Communications has revealed how Western Australia's coral reefs have been affected by changing ocean currents, rising sea...

The percentage of coral reefs affected by moderate (white) and severe (black) bleaching from 1980 to 2016 in (A) Australasia, (B) Indian Ocean, (C) Pacific Ocean, (D) western Atlantic.

Corals affected by mass bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef are «the sickest» Australian scientists have ever seen.

The Coral life is hugely affected simply because people want to pick them which is prohibited or divers stand on them by accident.

When stressed by sustained high temperatures, the coral organisms that build reefs sometimes expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing affected areas to turn white or pale.

In one small area, you can find four very unique bodies of water: there is the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Med Sea and the Sea of Galilee.With the sea to the west, coral reefs to the south, waterfalls in the north and a freshwater system throughout, Israel's environment is deeply affected by issues of water use and conservation, says the course press release.

In South Africa, fisheries could be affected by changes in estuaries, coral reefs and upwelling; with those that are dependent on the first two ecosystems being the most vulnerable (Clark, 2006).

Ocean acidification alone could decrease the density of coral skeletons by up to 20 %, with reefs close to the equator affected most.

Coral reefs are already affected by small global temperature increase.

Corals from Butaritari were more severely affected by bleaching in 2004 (Figure 2); on average corals from Butaritari had a 45 % reduction in skeletal extension rates in 2004 compared with a 22 % reduction at Abaiang and North Tarawa (p = 0.055, permutation test between sites, FiguCorals from Butaritari were more severely affected by bleaching in 2004 (Figure 2); on average corals from Butaritari had a 45 % reduction in skeletal extension rates in 2004 compared with a 22 % reduction at Abaiang and North Tarawa (p = 0.055, permutation test between sites, Figucorals from Butaritari had a 45 % reduction in skeletal extension rates in 2004 compared with a 22 % reduction at Abaiang and North Tarawa (p = 0.055, permutation test between sites, Figure 4).

Similarly, two studies that collected samples from coral colonies inhabiting environments with different temperature ranges found that corals from more variable environments were less affected by heat stress in the laboratory [34], [35].

Much of the globe's biodiversity will be affected, with the expected extinction of more than 1 million species by 2050 and the decimation of nearly all coral reefs by 2100.

We found that corals historically exposed to lower thermal variability were more severely affected by thermal stress in both 2004 and 2009, indicating that reefs experiencing more naturally variable temperature regimes may be more resistant to future warming.

Coral reefs, mangroves and even some fish could soon have their own insurance policies as the industry seeks new ways to boost protection for those affected by the ocean changes wrought by climate change.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

Other circumstances that have high plausibility of accelerating extinctions include climatically induced loss of keystone species, collateral loss of species not necessarily affected by climate directly but dependent on species removed by climate change (for example, the myriad species dependent on coral - building species, see below), and phenology mismatches (disruption of the links between a species» yearly cycle and the seasons)(Dawson et al., 2011; NRC, 2011a).

The statement emphasizes that ocean acidification is irreversible and, on current emission trajectories, suggests that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or even earlier.

Not only does this increasing acidity threaten the ocean food chain by hampering the formation of shells and corals, it could also affect the communication of marine mammals by changing the way sound travels through the seawater.

Approximately one - third of the world's coral reefs were affected by bleaching in 2016.

Corals affected by mass bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef are «the sickest» Australian scientists have ever seen.

While there are other determinants stomata are only weakly affected (pdf) by water stress or typical variations of irradiance, and so they do not suffer «all the problems» of such proxies as tree rings, corals, or spleothems.

Coral reefs, which are already under threat from overfishing and tourism, are especially vulnerable to climate change because they are easily affected by warm water.

To investigate how coral atolls are affected by rising sea levels, researchers from the University of Auckland and the University of New South Wales studied islands around the Funafuti Atoll, which holds the island nation of Tuvalu.

What happens for example to the symbiotic algae that live within the coral's tissues if the turbidity caused by a reflective hydrosol should impede sufficient light reaching the algae and therefore affecting photosynthesis?

By contrast, growth in the non-calcifying lecithotrophic asteroid brachiolaria and coral planula larvae are not affected by increased pCO2 [26,91,92By contrast, growth in the non-calcifying lecithotrophic asteroid brachiolaria and coral planula larvae are not affected by increased pCO2 [26,91,92by increased pCO2 [26,91,92].

Coral reefs will also be affected by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Orr et al., 2005; Raven et al., 2005; Denman et al., 2007, Box 7.3) resulting in declining calcification.

This is expected to affect coral reefs, cold water corals, and ecosystems (e.g., the Southern Ocean), where aragonite (used by many organisms to make their shells or skeletons) will decline or become undersaturated.

Corals are affected by warming of surface waters (Chapter 6, Box 6.1; Reynaud et al., 2003; McNeil et al., 2004; McWilliams et al., 2005) leading to bleaching (loss of algal symbionts — Chapter 6, Box 6.1).

All creatures which deposit calcium carbonate - not only corals, but crabs, sea urchins, and many others — are affected by the acidity of the water around them.

This may impact a wide range of organisms and ecosystems (e.g., coral reefs, Box 4.4, reviewed by Raven et al., 2005), including juvenile planktonic, as well as adult, forms of benthic calcifying organisms (e.g., echinoderms, gastropods and shellfish), and will affect their recruitment (reviewed by Turley et al., 2006).