Analysis of
coral samples showed that a combination of photosynthetic "strategy" (physiological plasticity) and microbial diversity supports
coral survival.
Ocampo said the area is not ideal for
coral gardening.
The third global
coral bleaching event started in the North Pacific in the summer of 2014 and continued for a record three years, only dissipating in 2017.
The UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change warned last year that just 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) of global warming could see 70-90 percent of Earth's
coral reefs vanish.
'Through the years I have observed efforts to do
coral transplantation and
coral nurseries, but these have been mostly failures and just led to the death of
corals,' Ocampo said.
An exhaustive scientific report on the health of the
coral reefs, shown to be critically important to the earth's future,
Coral Whisperers draws upon years of research.
DW spoke to him about why people might buy a reef, why his work matters and why
Coral Vita works so much faster than Mother Nature.
'Investment and insurance industries are crying out for these evidence-based standards to enable
coral reef restoration,' said IUCN's Carl Gustaf Lundin.
In a study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how two separate effects of climate change combine to destabilize different populations of
coral microbes--that is, unbalance the natural
coral "microbiome"--opening the door for bad bacteria to overpopulate
corals' mucus and their bodies as a whole.
Coral reefs are made up of thousands of tiny, clear jelly-like animals called "
coral polyps".
The ecology of one-third of the world's largest reef system permanently changed in 2016, when an extended marine heatwave killed off massive amounts of
coral.
The Mesoamerican Reef is the second largest
coral reef in the world, extending from the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula to the Honduran Bay Islands, and is only second in size to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia (Gerholdt 2016).
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- For
coral reefs, the threat of climate change and bleaching are bad enough.
