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Coral Reefs
The tiny polyps are the actual living coral tissue. The coral consist of polyps that secrete a substance called limestone. (The chemical name for limestone is ... coral polyps are carnivorous, they receive much of their energy from this photosynthesis. In return, the algae have a safe place to live within the coral tissue, and the algae use the coral's ...
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CHAMP - Coral Bleaching - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Coral Literature, Education & Outreach Coral List Server Details Subscribe Unsubscribe Interactive Tours CHAMP ICON/CREWS Stations Coral Literature, Education & Outreach (CLEO) Coral Bleaching Coral ... coral tissue, and when zooxanthellae are lost, corals appear white, or “bleached.” Coral bleaching is not well understood by scientists. Many different hypotheses exist as to the cause behind coral ...
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CHAMP - Coral Reef Biology - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
The disease causing microorganisms then utilize the organic material from the killed coral tissue to grow and proliferate. The visible "black-band" moves across living coral tissue at a rate of a few millimeters per day leaving dead coral skeleton behind. Different coral ...
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CHAMP - Coral Disease Identification and Information - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Coral Reef Symposium. Bali, 1251-1255. Dark spots disease Borger JL (2003). 'Three Scleractinian Coral Diseases in Dominica, West Indies: Distribution, Infection Patterns and Contribution to Coral Tissue Mortality ... Contribution to Coral Tissue Mortality.' Revista de Biologia Tropical 51 (Supl 4): 25-38. Bruckner AW and Bruckner RJ (1997). 'Outbreak of Coral Disease in Puerto Rico.' Coral Reefs 16 ...
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Coral Ecosystems
Coral Bleaching Coral bleaching is an issue that has local, regional, and global ... lot more natural system variability than was previously known. Another study documented that coral tissue itself was surprisingly unaffected during two severe bleaching events in consecutive years. ...
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WWF - Climate change problems: coral bleaching
Environmental stresses such as increased water temperatures cause the zooxanthellae to leave the coral tissue. This exposes the white, calcium carbonate skeletons of the coral and is what we call coral ...
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NOAA's Reporter's Coral Reef Tip Sheet - Week 39
Since corals work best when their surfaces are sediment-free, their metabolic efficiency diminishes and tissue death occurs. Microbes quickly claim ... coral from sediment influence increases when algae are present. The algae also shade coral tissue causing bleaching and eventually tissue damage. Large algal colonies can also scrape the soft coral tissue ...
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NOAA's Coral Reef Reporter's Tip Sheet - Week 35
Coral bleaching is being observed in a variety of coral species in the Florida Keys, across the Caribbean, and ... layer of live coral tissue. Zooxanthellae are important because they turn sunlight into food for their coral hosts. They also facilitate the formation of the coral skeleton -- the main structural component of coral reefs. ...
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CHAMP - Coral Disease Identification and Information - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Degeneration - deterioration; change from a higher to a lower form, especially change of tissue to a ... obtained and be propagated in pure culture. Lesion � any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part. Morbidity � the condition of being diseased; unhealthy ...
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The Coral Reef: A Living Wonder
Beneath the South Pacific •The Coral Reef: A Living Wonder •Coral Reefs: Rainforests of the Sea • ... colonial animals, called coral polyps. Coral polyps live on plankton and also on sunlight, utilizing symbiotic algae in their skin tissue to augment ... Education View entire film script Tiny colonial animals called coral polyps work together to produce reefs, the largest living structures ...
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