Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments. This loss of pigment can be caused...
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at risk of bleaching events where polyps expel the zooxanthellae in response to stress such as high water temperature or toxins. Other corals do not rely...
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of global climate change. Coral bleaching is also a major threat to all types of coral. Coral bleaching is when the coral expels the zooxanthella that...
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heat-sensitive corals to bleach, with especially widespread bleachings in 1998 and 2010. However, reefs that experience a severe bleaching event become...
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sedimentation, pollution, bleaching, ocean acidification, and human impacts. Bleaching events, triggered by rising sea temperatures, cause corals to expel the algae...
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Great Barrier Reef (category Landforms of the Coral Sea)
September 2007. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. "Coral Bleaching and Mass Bleaching Events". Archived from the original on 20 April 2006. Retrieved...
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negatively by coral bleaching and increased sea surface temperatures, which in turn leads to coral reef diseases. The first large-scale coral bleaching occurred...
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation (section Coral bleaching)
attributes the first large-scale coral bleaching event to the warming waters. Most critically, global mass bleaching events were recorded in 1997-98 and...
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UV filter (section Coral bleaching)
large amounts of coral mucus within 18-48 hrs and bleaching of hard corals within 96 hrs. Among the UV filters that result in coral bleaching according to...
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throughout the area, which can cause coral bleaching. "Minor paling" of some corals has been observed by local Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network, a program...
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of coral to environmental stresses Textile bleaching Skin whitening Tooth bleaching Photobleaching Bleach (manga), a Japanese manga series Bleach (TV...
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Payar Island (section Coral Bleaching)
temperatures, the Payar Island Marine Park suffered from widespread coral bleaching at a critical level in the second half of 2010. Furthermore, marine...
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Coral bleaching in Oahu has been on the rise since 1996, when Hawaii's first major coral bleaching occurred in Kaneohe Bay, followed by major bleaching...
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Scott and Seringapatam Reefs (section Coral Bleaching)
coral bleaching in 2016 (during a global coral bleaching event), which killed approximately 80% of corals. This followed a previous extensive coral bleaching...
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coral causing it to undergo a process known as coral bleaching. The ocean's acidity is also a factor. Coral is made of calcium carbonate and is dissolved...
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Marine heatwave (section Coral bleaching)
marine heatwaves can lead to severe biodiversity changes such as coral bleaching, sea star wasting disease, harmful algal blooms, and mass mortality...
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of bleached coral in its design, noting the heavy, real-world territory the design entered, and how it directly evoked imagery of the coral bleaching in...
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Oval butterflyfish (section Effects of coral bleaching)
different types of coral, including Acropora florida, A. gemmifera, A. hyacinthus, A. intermedia, and Pocillopora damicornis. Coral bleaching has been shown...
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resilience of coral reefs is the biological ability of coral reefs to recover from natural and anthropogenic disturbances such as storms and bleaching episodes...
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events of bleaching in 16 of Jamaica's coral reef sites. The hurricanes affected 68 percent of Jamaica's coral reefs and 38 percent of those corals later...
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the coral's life at risk. Coral bleaching is the result of the loss of vital zooxanthellae; any of the stressors can cause bleaching. The corals expel...
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reef to go into a process known as coral bleaching. “Sunscreens cause the rapid and complete bleaching of hard corals, even at extremely low concentrations...
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scale bleaching events. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) reported in 2021, that the East Asian Seas region, which includes the Coral Triangle...
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causing the coral to lose color, known as coral bleaching. Environmental conditions such as a rise in water temperature inflict stress on the corals causing...
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Symbiodinium (section Coral bleaching)
to understand global coral reef decline. A chief mechanism for widespread reef degradation has been stress-induced coral bleaching caused by unusually...
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Kwale Island, Zanzibar (category East African coral coast)
Kwale, where coral cover dropped to 29.7% in 1997 and 13.3% in 1999, Unguja reefs did not appear to be seriously impacted by coral bleaching. According...
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entering the ocean. There was a 36-month bleaching event on the reefs of the Solomons in 2014–2017. The bleaching was a consequence of an increase in ocean...
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possible for corals to recover from bleaching, it takes several years, and the recent increase in scale and frequency of global bleaching events means...
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protect coral reefs. CORAL also has a coral bleaching response network using high-resolution satellite images to monitor coral reefs and bleaching events...
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showed, 91% of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, have experienced some degree of coral bleaching. The reefs that had higher levels of bleaching, often were...
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