Global Warming Causes Outbreak Of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 07:07
in Earth & Climate
Scientists have found a rare species of algae that is tolerant of stressful environmental conditions and that proliferated in Caribbean corals when the corals' more-sensitive algae were being expelled during the sea-temperature warming of 2005. The research is one of the first times that anyone has had the opportunity to conduct a community-wide study of corals and algae before, during and after a bleaching event.