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About Coral Bleaching
Question: What is Coral Bleaching?
Coral reefs are ecosystems. Tropical corals are generally very colorful, such as corals are inhabited by small algae called zooxanthellae. The algae, coral color and the use of sunlight for photosynthesis, corals of oxygen needed.
Answer:
Coral Bleaching happen if the polyps of corals, animals, building corals, algae in the (zooxanthellae), color, and are necessary for their survival. The coral is white in appearance.
Coral scientists are not sure what the causes of coral bleaching, heating, water is the most likely. Reefs in the Caribbean and Florida have bleached, if sea surface temperatures have increased and are higher than average sea surface temperature does not exceed a month.
Coral reefs are important as protection and feeding grounds conditions for many fish species. When there is a mass death of corals, bleached corals are colonized by algae, which is populated only reef fish herbivores, and the reef may never.
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