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Summary Of: Coral bleaching

Coral bleaching is a vivid sign of corals responding to stress which can be induced by any... environmental conditions and may be more resistant to coral bleaching than other species... Factors that protect against mass coral bleaching are bleaching resistance... suffered two mass coral bleaching events in the summers of 1998 and 2002...

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Two images of the Great Barrier Reef showing that the warmest water (top picture) coincides with the coral reefs (lower picture), setting up conditions that can cause coral bleaching. | | Great Barrier Reef | corals | unicellular | algae | corals | reef | ecosystems | photosynthesizing | zooxanthellae | clade | global warming | photosynthetically active radiation | ultraviolet band | ocean acidification | zooplankton | overfishing | sea surface temperature | anthropogenic | Bleached corals | | Healthy corals | | soft corals | giant Tridacna clams | sponges | Great Barrier Reef | Australia | Indian Ocean | Maldives | Sri Lanka | Kenya | Tanzania | Seychelles | Bioerosion (coral damage) such as this may be caused by coral bleaching. | | 2007 | 07-12 | 2007 | 03-02 | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority | 17 April | 2003 | Iowa State University | 2006 | 11-02 | Categories | Coral reefs | Climate change feedbacks and causes | Aquatic ecology |
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