Sentences with phrase «expel 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.

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.

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.

Corals are said to bleach when the animals are stressed and expel their symbiotic algae, turning white.

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

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

Coral bleaching occurs when the coral expel their symbiotic algae due to extreme stress.

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

Bleaching occurs when overly warm water leads corals to expel symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae.

Ecologists have watched in horror as unusually warm ocean temperatures have prompted corals to «bleach», or expel the symbiotic algae that provide much of their food.

I think some research shows corals expelling their symbiotic algae at higher temperatures, which will make growing more difficult, leading to greater difficulties in keeping the productive population at the proper depth, and they've got decreased ability to build their calcareous skeletons (due to the dissolving CO2) on top of all that.

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That symbiotic algae gets expelled when it gets too hot, so the corals bleach and starve.