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How do Gulf corals beat the heat?
In Abu Dhabi corals don’t die because they managed to beat
the heat; many questions were asked according to this statement. So Prof Burt
took sample and makes an experiment to range the temperature with the corals.
They found that coral live symbiotic, its type of algae that live inside the
coral tissue that provide the shelter for corals and when they die they unable
to feed them self. In 2010 was hot too and they accepted to increase by 2 to 3
C warmer by 2100 and the atmospheric carbon dioxide would have its own
corrosive effect. The skeleton of the
coral made of the same element of the human bone it’s called calcium carbonate.
However, coral reproduce in one of two ways through fragmentation or larval
production. Coral larvae are produced in massive spawning they float around the
sea up to a week until reach the rocky surface, and the slight increase in
stress can push them over the edge.
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References
Olson, M. (2012,
May 13). How do Gulf corals beat the heat? - The National. Latest and
breaking news | thenational.ae - The National. Retrieved March 4, 2013,
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http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/how-do-gulf-corals-beat-the-heat
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