Marine Life Coral Reefs

May 7th, 2006 |

Author: admin

marine life coral reefs
Question: Is this more good news from the animal kingdom?

Maybe life on Earth is a little more resilient than the GW cultists would have us to believe.

This from Reuters:

SYDNEY - Australia’s Great Barrier Reef might be able to survive warming sea temperatures, as a result of global warming, better than first thought because some coral algae are more heat tolerant, Australian scientists said.

Coral geneticists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science have found that many corals store several types of algae, which can improve their capacity to cope with warmer water.

“This work shatters the popular view that only a small percentage of corals have the potential to respond to warmer conditions by shuffling live-in algal partners,” said institute marine scientist Madeleine van Oppen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19743665/

Answer: Jim z: Because the oceans are such a stable eco-system, they hardly change at all, the species in it have evolved much less tolerance to any changes. Compare it to a lake where nutrients, temperature, and Ph varies greatly. The species living under such conditions can tolerate much wider temperature swings then the oceanic ones.
The corals do require (most of them) warm temperatures, but also stable ones.

Coral Reef Marine Life Identification : Coral Reef Fish: Red Lionfish