[Coral-List] How are Florida corals faring in this cold snap?

[K-le Gomez-Cabrera]

Hi all,

Has anyone checked corals in Florida (or other parts of the northern Caribbean) where temperatures have plummeted? I'm wondering because we are so focussed now on bleaching due to high temperatures that I think we have forgotten that corals can also bleach due to extremely low temperatures; and after reports of frozen sharks, turtles being paralysed and iguanas falling from trees, I'm concern for the organisms that cannot move. Are they coping?

Cheers,

K-le

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