In
hot water Coral reefs have been besieged in recent decades by everything from warming waters to ocean acidification, disease, overfishing and pollution.
Not exact matches
IN
HOT WATER Staghorn
coral (Acropora millepora) may be able to last 100 - to 250 years thanks to its ability to adapt to warming
waters.
RISING ocean temperatures might leave
coral reefs in seriously
hot water — without clouds for protection.
WHITEOUT When
waters get too
hot too quickly,
corals can bleach, losing their symbiotic (and colorful) bacteria.
The next major spate of mass bleaching, between 1997 and 1998, hammered reefs in more than 50 countries, even among the
hot -
water corals of the Arabian Sea.
«This is crucial since, if
corals are bleached by the sudden arrival of
hot ocean
water and lose the symbiotic algae which are their main source of energy, they will still die,» he cautions.
Researchers found a lagoon system in New Caledonia with
corals that can survive in
hot, acidic and low - oxygen
waters.
Coral reefs won't be out of
hot water for quite a while.
Around the world, many
coral reefs are in
hot water, and it's getting even
hotter.
A short boat ride from our dive center, «The Vents» boast large barrel sponges, wire
coral and
hot water vents holes that make this a most unusual dive.
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El Niño's
hot waters pushed many
corals beyond their thermal tolerances, resulting in widespread reef - scale bleaching.
Bleaching does not necessarily spell death for
coral: If the
hot -
water event passes quickly, the
coral will reunite with its algal partner, regain its color and avoid starvation.
While El Niño has brought
coral - killing
hot water to the Galápagos on a periodic basis for millennia, new research suggests that the frequency and intensity of warm ocean conditions may be increasing (Hughes et al. 2018).
Today, several months of
hot and still
waters in the
Coral Sea combined with a weak monsoon have resulted in some of the worst conditions for coral bleaching in dec
Coral Sea combined with a weak monsoon have resulted in some of the worst conditions for
coral bleaching in dec
coral bleaching in decades.
When ocean
waters get too
hot,
corals expel the algae that live within them, losing their source of nutrients, turning white and sometimes dying.
«We are selecting for
corals that are effectively weedy, for things that can grow back in two to three years, for things that are accustomed to having
hot water.»
A two - year study of the extreme weather found the southern reef was mostly untouched, but many
coral communities up north died instantly in the
hot water.