Ongoing Recovery Of Great Barrier Reef Ecosystems Is Complicated

Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica
Fri, 07/27/2018 - 7:15am

Enlarge / This southern reef escaped bleaching, but other areas were not so lucky. (credit: Rick Stuart-Smith, Reef Life Survey) In a heat wave, humans sweat and try to avoid heat exhaustion. But in a coral reef, a wave of warm ocean temperatures can trigger a very different response from ours. Corals host single-celled, photosynthetic symbiotes called zooxanthellae that provide food in exchange for shelter.

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