How do Gulf corals beat the heat?
How can
coral survive in summer with high temperatures in the sea? It’s an interning topic.
As a first step they sent some samples from Gulf coral to British labs to check. The coral live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, a type
of algae that lives inside the coral's tissue. The algae produce sugar which
is the source of the coral’s energy it takes the sugar from the algae’s
reaction. Algae have positive and negative reactions; the positive I mentioned
it; for the negative reaction at high temperature algae can damage the coral by
producing harmful chemicals reactions. The coral's white skeleton is made of
calcium carbonate whose minerals are the same substance as human bones - and is
sensitive to changes in water chemistry. Experts fear that in the future coral
might disappear if they don’t get any solution for it.
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