"It's likely these mangrove lagoon
corals have the best chance to persist into the future given that they are already conditioned to the complex interaction of warmer waters, ocean acidification, and deoxygenation predicted for reefs under climate change," he said.
Maybe, instead, we will raise fund for this project to protect the
corals. About the base of the monument, we will use it as mooring block,' he said.
This is manifested in many ways, including
coral bleaching.
So once the sewage pollution was removed, those "super
corals" swiftly "came in and drove the reefs to a rapid recovery."
Scientists recently reported the discovery of the first
coral reefs in Italy's Adriatic coast near Monopoli in Puglia.
'It was also meant to call attention to the issue at hand: that there are projects with good intentions that are sometimes doing more harm to
corals, and that
coral transplantation and propagation need to be planned carefully and with the advice of experts, if it's at all needed.'
Coral Whisperers is exceptional in its scientific detail but also in relating the personal stories of the scientists, or "whisperers," who follow the lives of
corals and invest their own lives in striving to preserve them.
If we're starting from scratch, from just collecting
corals that we're going to start growing in our farm, it'll be about six or eight months before we're planting our first batch of
coral into that reef.
'Investment and insurance industries are crying out for these evidence-based standards to enable
coral reef restoration,' said IUCN's Carl Gustaf Lundin.
"Just like we need good bacteria to be healthy, so do
coral," says Andrea Grottoli, professor of earth sciences.
Coral bleaching occurs when
corals are stressed due to environmental disturbances including temperature, light, and chemical changes in the environment.