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It's Survival Of The Fattest For Corals Adapting To Climate Change

2014-07-10 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RedOrbit: The future health of the world`s coral reefs and the animals that depend on them relies in part on the ability of one tiny symbiotic sea creature to get fat--and to be flexible about the type of algae it cooperates with. In the first study of its kind, scientists at The Ohio State University discovered that corals--tiny reef-forming animals that live symbiotically with algae--are better able to recover from yearly bouts of heat stress, called "bleaching," when they keep large energy reserves--mostly...

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