Sentences with phrase «after bleaching events»

«The corals didn't die after this bleaching event, they recovered — and that's good, that's important — but there could be potential tradeoffs associated with the shift to heat - tolerant algae,» said Kemp, adding that, for example, some heat - tolerant algae may provide less food than those they might replace.

Six months after the bleaching event, however, this variation was almost entirely lost,» said co-author Dr Andrew Hoey of ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

After a bleaching event that leads to coral mortality, a reef may lose tourism value.

Months after the bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, signs of the hoped - for recovery are scant.

Reefs that were once dominated by large, slow - growing species, for instance, may be repopulated after a bleaching event with different, faster - growing species.

Not exact matches

How much will be left after this global bleaching event?

But in a meeting last week, scientists warned the advisory committee that oversees the plan that the goal of improving the reef environment is unrealistic after back - to - back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, contributing to the worst coral die - off ever recorded.

Because they had been collecting at the site for two years, and continued collecting after this event, the researchers were able to compare the communities of symbiotic algae before, during and after bleaching.

The quantity and types of coral and fish species were surveyed before, during and after the 2016 mass bleaching event caused by a global heatwave.

This is the third bleaching event that the barrier reef has experienced at a large scale, after 1998 and 2002, but this is much worse in terms of the number of reefs that are severely bleached.

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

As part of a project documenting the global bleaching event, he had surveyed Lizard Island, which sits about 90 km north of Cooktown in far north Queensland, when it was in full glorious health; then just as it started bleaching this year; then finally a few weeks after the bleaching began.

Excavating sponge abundance increased in both Fort Lauderdale and St. Croix reefs after a regional mass bleaching event in 2005.

A state transition model (Markov chain) was developed to evaluate the response of coral - excavating sponges (Cliona delitrix Pang 1973) after coral bleaching events.

As a general rule, responsive monitoring of bleaching events should occur 2 - 6 weeks after the peek thermal stress and monitoring should be undertaken after severe storms as soon as sea conditions are safe.

Coral bleaching events are happening more and more often around the world, meaning reefs may not be getting enough time to recover after they bleach, according to scientists.

After suffering through the most severe bleaching event ever recorded last year, the Great Barrier Reef is once again being savaged by a marine heat wave.

So that's even more interesting now after this recent bleaching event when 25 % of the Great Barrier Reef's coral is dead.

The cover of P. rus in South Tarawa expanded after the 2004 bleaching event [47]; by 2010, P. rus comprised 66 % and 80 % of the coral cover at 5 m depth and 10 m depth, respectively, at our site TRW3 (unpublished survey data collected by SD in May 2010).

Nick Graham from James Cook University showed last year that almost 60 % of reefs in the Seychelles recovered after they lost 90 % of their coral following the 1998 global bleaching event.

As part of a project documenting the global bleaching event, he had surveyed Lizard Island, which sits about 90 km north of Cooktown in far north Queensland, when it was in full glorious health; then just as it started bleaching this year; then finally a few weeks after the bleaching began.

Scientists labeled 2016 the worst bleaching event in the Reef's history after aerial surveys revealed severe damage throughout the northern and middle sections, with only the southern, cooler third left unharmed.

After a study last month revealed that the Great Barrier Reef was suffering a coral bleaching event for the second consecutive year, scientists have completed an aerial survey of the reef offering more evidence of the environmental catastrophe that is currently taking place.

LaJeunesse commented that he had seen the species proliferate once before: In Florida, after a warm - current bleaching event devastated the reefs there.