great barrier reef coral bleaching

Coral bleaching occurs when corals get too hot. Bleached corals are essentially sick corals and although they can recover, if temperatures are too warm for too long, the corals will die. Coral bleaching and in some cases...


of the Great Barrier Reef:


The Great Barrier reef


Photo: Great Barrier Reef


Great Barrier Reef. During


Diagram of coral bleaching


Coral bleaching is the loss of

Bill Dennison, Heath Kelsey, and Jane Thomas recently attended a Great Barrier Reef Foundation workshop to develop a synthetic publication that charts the vision for assessing the vulnerability to climate change.... vulnerability to climate change. There are major climate impacts already being manifested, including sea surface temperature-induced coral bleaching, coral skeletal degradation due to ocean acidification, and relative sea level rise leading to inundation of mangroves.
Assessing the vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate ...

In this example from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, images correlating coral bleaching, water temperature, and chlorophyll-a at the Great Barrier Reef. Pink and yellow color represent highest water temperature which is concentrated close...
great barrier reef coral bleaching