4A+Coral+Bleaching

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Coral Bleaching


 * __Abiotic Factors __**

Usually in 70-85°f slightly shallow water in the tropics that has the waves brings food. They are built by the skeletons of hundreds of dead coral pulps stacking up till it breaks the surface of the ocean then it goes sideways. Slowly it will become islands for land animals. Some sea animals are  Zooplankton (animal plankton), Sponge, Purple Sea Urchin, Squid, Spot Light Parrot fish, Silver Porgy, Surgeon Fish, Yellow Fin Grouper, Blue Tang, Nassau Grouper, Four Eyed Butterfly Fish, Barracuda, Finger Coral, Common Sea Fan, Brain Coral

· **Plants and Algae ** · **Algal turf ** · **Jointed seaweed ** · **Phytoplankton (plant plankton) ** · **Zooplankton (animal plankton) ** · **Sponge ** · **Purple Sea Urchin ** · **Squid ** · **Spot Light Parrot fish ** · **Silver Porgey ** · **Surgeon Fish ** · **Yellow Fin Grouper ** · **Blue Tang ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Nassau Grouper ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Four Eyed Butterfly Fish ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Barracuda ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Finger Coral ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Common Sea Fan ** · **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Brain Coral ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Cyanide fishing ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Blast fishing ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Bottom Trawling ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Runoff water ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Sewage ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Fertilizers ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Pollution ** · **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Global Warming **
 * __<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Biotic Factors __**
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Animals **
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Fish **
 * <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Coral **
 * __<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Food Web __**
 * __<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Threats to the coral __**


 * __<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Importance of the Coral Reef __**

<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">. __<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Conservation <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Plan __
 * __ The importances of the coral reefs are, for instance, without it the fish wouldn’t have a somewhat safe place to live away from all the bigger more threatening fish. __****__ Also, the coral reefs, if piled high enough, could eventually become an island for people and other creatures to live on. Without the coral the coral reefs would never be formed and fish would lose their home and protection, not to mention, if you like Hawaii well without the coral and their skeletons to create the reefs, with some help from the lava, Hawaii never would exist. Well, not Hawaii, but the Great Barrier Reef next to Australia wouldn’t exist; because the coral wouldn’t be around. As you can tell the coral reefs and coral themselves are important to many creatures, including human beings.  __**

Ways to slow down coral bleaching are quite simple like car pool, walk, pick up trash, and throw away trash properly. But we can’t do it alone so if we work together we can save the earth, coral, polar bears penguins, and not what most conservationists include humans.

__<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Photo Credits __ <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Zooplankton: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Copepodopolis] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/67889272@N00/3128045666 by: Squid: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|baby_squid] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/95516176@N00/120403714 by: Christopher Glenn Small fish fry: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Clown Fish] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/26176646@N04/2972687763 by: Michael Johnson Shark nose goby on brain coral: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Sharknose Goby on Brain Coral] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/40467171@N00/126869216 by: LASZLO ILYES Serpent coral bleaching: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Serpent coral bleaching] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/49149279@N00/3672848008 by: Phytoplankton: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Discosphaera tubifera] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/8531408@N04/532869062 by: Four eyed butterfly fish: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|p3030388] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/82907088@N00/2312937148 by: Greg Grimes Coral: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Coral Reef] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/79942116@N00/89250252 by: Ian Robertson Brain Coral: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Brain Coral] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/40467171@N00/149047693 by: LASZLO ILYES Barracuda: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Barracuda, Pulau Sipadan] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/54945394@N00/3396363829 by: Algae: Original image: ' <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|EXPLOSIÓN DE VIDA EN EUDORINA ELEGANS] <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">' http://www.flickr.com/photos/25898159@N07/4325484156 by: Antonio Guillén Original image: ' [|Serpent coral bleaching] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/49149279@N00/3672848032 by: Original image: ' [|Favid coral bleaching] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/49149279@N00/3870644693 by: Original image: ' [|Panama Marine Life - Coral Reefs] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/23065375@N05/2234742005 by: Original image: ' [|Reefs 192] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/57151547@N00/399106171 by: WRI Staff Original image: ' [|Napoleonic encounter] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4607183943 by: Eric Burgers Original image: ' [|Stalemate] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4596234281 by: Eric Burgers Original image: ' [|The Sunny Side] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4599101589 by: Eric Burgers Original image: ' [|Once every year] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4592120712 by: Eric Burgers Original image: ' [|Typical Fire Coral setup (Millepora alcicornis)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4590852549 by: Eric Burgers Original image: ' [|Friendly Giant] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/12224827@N07/4586797019 by: Eric Burgers