Sentences with phrase «bleached branching corals»

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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.

At the coral colony level, fast - growing species that are characterized by fine - structured, branching or tabular growth forms tend to be more susceptible to bleaching.

Hard corals on a Biorock ® structure can grow 2 - 6 times faster than in natural conditions, the corals on the Biorock ® reef are exceptionally bright colored and densely branched, heal from physical damage at least 20 times faster, have up to 50 times higher survival rate from the most severe high temperature bleaching events, and show rates of new coral growth higher than any previously recorded data.

«Previous studies have shown a two to three year delay in reproduction after severe bleaching but at most of the reefs we are finding colonies of Acropora [branching hard coral] colonies with early signs of egg development in shallow waters, 3m to 6m deep.»