What is it about?
Coral bleaching, and coral reef die off is a global concern for scientists, and a key symptom of climate change and the rising ocean surface temperatures. This research highlights the behaviours coral employ during bleaching that was induced by increases in water temperature.
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Why is it important?
The way coral naturally adapt and resist the current ocean temperature increases is critical to understanding how we can protect our coral reefs and oceans long term.
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Visual mediums such as time-lapse are good way to engage both the science and the public.
Brett M Lewis
Queensland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Expulsion of Symbiodinium by pulsed inflation under hyperthermal stress in Heliofungia actiniformis, Coral Reefs, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-016-1473-5.
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