How corals can actually benefit from climate change effects
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 04:32
in Earth & Climate
New research explains how moderate increases in ocean acidification and temperature can enhance the growth rates of some reef-forming corals. Authors of a new report attribute the coral's positive response to moderately elevated carbon dioxide to the fertilization of photosynthesis within the coral's algal symbionts, which may provide the coral with more energy for calcification even though the seawater is more acidic.