Study: Environmental Bleaching Impairs Long-Term Coral Reproduction

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 14:50 in Earth & Climate

Professor Don Levitan, chair of the Department of Biological Science, writes in the latest issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series that bleaching -- a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color -- is also affecting the long-term fertility of the coral.

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