Sentences with phrase «much bleaching coral»

It then plugs the numbers into models to predict how much bleaching coral will experience.

Not exact matches

Cinner and McClanahan have found that different places felt different effects of coral bleaching based on how much people depended on fish and tourism for a living and how flexible the local people were.

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.

Yellow scroll coral is much more hardy than staghorn coral when it comes to retaining its algae — that is, not bleaching — in the face of rising temperatures.

Eakin says that by watching the temperature of the water and looking at how much coral actually dies off — and which species are most affected — researchers will get a sense of whether or not corals are adapting to the increased frequency of bleaching.

You have probably heard of «coral bleaching» — that is, coral dying — which is very bad news, because reefs support as much as a quarter of all marine life and supply food for half a billion people.

Gates expects that under stress, super corals will keep their healthy fluorescence patterns much longer than corals that are bleaching.

Deserted white sand beaches and crystal clear waters offer a rich diversity of marine life, but sadly much coral bleaching and in some areas plastic waste — take a rubbish bag to fill up when you snorkel, and refuse single - use plastic.

Because Cape Tribulation is in the Northern reef, and much more secluded than other parts, evidence of coral bleaching is far less noticeable.

Coral reefs in much of the Caribbean have been badly degraded in recent decades by die - offs of algae - munching sea urchins, high - temperature bleaching events, overfishing, invasive species and runoff from fast - paced coastal development.

For months, coral reef experts have been loudly, and sometimes mournfully, announcing that much of the treasured Great Barrier Reef has been hit by «severe» coral bleaching, thanks to abnormally warm ocean waters.

«A recent underwater expedition to the Red Sea offshore from Sudan and Eritrea [18] found surface water temperatures 28 °C in winter and up to 34 °C in the summer, but despite that extreme heat the coral was healthy with much fish life with very little sign of coral bleaching»

Then, you can tell us how much increase in temperature is necessary to cause coral bleaching, again to the nearest one hundredth of one degree centigrade will be sufficient.

Prior to the 1980s there were no signs of any global coral bleaching events for the past ten thousand years, and probably much longer.

Many corals remained bleached, and disease and mortality continued through much of 2006.

According to Dean Miller, this year's Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching event has taken scientists «by surprise by its severity and extent» and is occurring much further south than last year's, which killed 22 percent of the reef.

The skeletal extension rate and partial mortality scar data for all three atolls suggest that massive Porites sp. corals in the Gilbert Islands could be, in general, more resistant to bleaching than corals in much of the tropics.

It is also likely that not very many in the Rose Garden that day could imagine that severe drought would soon paralyze Texas and Oklahoma several years in a row, that massive floods would take hundreds of lives and destroy billions of dollars of property, that glaciers would recede, coral reefs would bleach and die off, or that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy would bring New York City and much of New Jersey to its knees.

And temperature anomalies, thermal stresses, and the coral bleaching they provoke are often much more pronounced in shallow reef systems than in the surrounding ocean.

When I started looking at this topic the first thing that struck me was just how much time is spent in the blogosphere debating the effects (real or imagined) of global temperature rise and how little time seemed to be spent on the key evidential science; as though retreating glaciers, arctic sea - ice or coral bleaching said anything about causality.

Too much oxygen is toxic to the coral — so the algae are expelled, leading to coral bleaching and potentially killing the reef.