[Coral-List] colors in bleached coral

[Douglas Fenner]

"Science can help explain the phenomenon known as "coral bleaching:"  (I
promise the article is not as ignorant as that title sounds.  -DF)

https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAKcSvw?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

Coral bleaching: a colorful struggle for survival
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220306473

Optical feedback loop involving dinoflagellate symbiont and scleractinian
host drives colorful coral bleaching

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220305716

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA

Slashing emissions by 2050 isn't enough.  We can bring down temperature now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/climate-deadlines-super-pollutants-hfcs-methane/2021/04/15/acb8c612-9d7d-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html

Humans have destroyed 97% of earth's ecosystems
(well, more like only 3% are fully intact)
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1fH7DT?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

Study: One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years.
(but 2-4 times worse in tropics)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoa-soo021220.php
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/8/4211