Double Jeopardy for Corals
During the bleaching event there was a sharp contrast between corals that had C2 algae (left) and type D algae (right)
By Alison Jones
Not only are corals jeopardised by warmer waters but their growth is constrained as they change from heat-sensitive to heat-tolerant symbiotic algae in order to survive.
Dr Alison Jones is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Environmental Management at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, and has been studying the impacts of climate change on local coral communities in the southern Great Barrier Reef Keppel area since 2004.
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