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Coral Reef Responses to Temperature Stress
Coral
Reef Responses to Temperature Stress: Thermal Adaptation.
As living entities, corals are not only acted upon by the various elements of their environment,they also react or respond to them. And when changes in environmental factors pose a challenge to their continued existence, they sometimes take major defensive or adaptive actions to insure their survival. A simple but pertinent example of one form of this phenomenon is thermal adaptation, which feature has been observed by several researchers to operate in corals in response to the stress of high temperature. This summary presents a review of such scientists’ work, demonstrating that predictions of vast coral demise due to global warming are unlikely to occur.
As living entities, corals are not only acted upon by the various elements of their environment,they also react or respond to them. And when changes in environmental factors pose a challenge to their continued existence, they sometimes take major defensive or adaptive actions to insure their survival. A simple but pertinent example of one form of this phenomenon is thermal adaptation, which feature has been observed by several researchers to operate in corals in response to the stress of high temperature. This summary presents a review of such scientists’ work, demonstrating that predictions of vast coral demise due to global warming are unlikely to occur.
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Coral Reef Responses to Temperature Stress: Thermal Adaptation. As living entities, corals are not only acted upon by the various elements of their environment,they also react or respond to them.
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