Sentences with phrase «cause symbiotic algae»

But stressors, including overly warm ocean water, cause symbiotic algae to abandon coral tissues, bleaching them (right).

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These heat waves can cause coral bleaching (SN: 02/03/18, p. 16)-- corals eject the symbiotic algae known as zooxanthellae that provide corals with both nutrients and color.

Overly warm water causes them to expel the symbiotic algae that give coral their color and are the corals» major food source.

Rising water temperatures stress corals and cause them to expel the symbiotic algae which is their primary food source and gives them their color.

Warming causes coral bleaching, as overheated coral expel symbiotic algae and become vulnerable to disease and mortality [123].

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 an article on Yale 360 Environment, Veron writes that the major issues include mass bleachings caused by warmer water, which kills off zooxanthellae, the algae with which coral have a symbiotic relationship, and ocean acidification.

Coral bleaching occurs when corals become stressed by warmer - than - normal water, causing them to expel symbiotic algae that live in their tissues, from which they get their energy.

It is being increasingly smothered with suspended sediment that blocks light; smeared with fertilisers that cause outbreaks of seaweed and coral - eating crown of thorns starfish; and poisoned with herbicides that kill the coral's symbiotic algae.

Warming waters cause the corals, the basis for important coral reef ecosystems, to bleach, or expel the symbiotic algae, which provide them with color.

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?

During bleaching events, corals loss the symbiotic algae (known as zooxanthellae) which causes the coral to look white as the limestone skeleton becomes visible.

Rising sea temperatures cause coral bleaching, a stress response whereby corals lose their colourful symbiotic algae.