[Coral-List] Ideal Temperatures for Coral growth, reproduction, and thermal lethal limits.

Steve Palumbi spalumbi at stanford.edu
Sun Sep 7 23:27:02 EDT 2014


Likewise, we have found that individual corals can change themselves to become more heat tolerant when living in a warmer environment, and that some individuals have a higher dose of 'heat resistant' genes that gives them an edge as well. Equitorial populations bleach at higher temperatures than the same species living further from the equator. Yet there are some limits. We have found few corals that are bleach resistant above 35 degrees. And poor physiological health makes them more bleaching sensitive. 

Steve
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Stephen R. Palumbi
Harold A Miller Director, Hopkins Marine Station
Jane and Marshall Steel Professor of Biology
Stanford University




On Sep 6, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Dennis Hubbard <dennis.hubbard at oberlin.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Rudy Bonn <rudy_bonn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello coral listers, can someone tell me what the ideal temperature range
>> for growth and reproduction in scleractinian, hermatypic corals.  Does it
>> differ among species, depth range, turbidity, DO, salinity, and any other
>> parameters that should be considered?  Also, what is the thermal range for
>> bleaching to likely begin?
>> One earlier post stated that they recorded a temperature of 89 degrees @
>> 30' and that most of the species were showing signs of severe bleaching.
>> Thanks for your consideration, Rudy Bonn.
>> 
>> 
>> Rudy S Bonn
>> Marine Educator/Biologist
>> Miami, Florida



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