How do Gulf corals beat the heat?

How do Gulf corals beat the heat?

 

 

In summer the temperature reaches from 35c to 40c in the waters of the gulf. In Abu Dhabi people try to do their best to help the corals and reef fish from dying. The people who have experience took samples of hump corals and sent them from Abu Dhabi and to a lab in Britain. The algae photosynthesis producing sugars that provide up to 90 per cent of the corals energy and in return the coral provides shelter and nutrients this helps explain why the corals surviving. When it is very hut the algae damage the corals which have died An extreme case of this bleaching was seen in 1998, when the El Niño weather phenomenon subjected 80 per cent of the world’s coral reefs to extreme temperatures. One coral in particular the table corals corpora have managed a particularly impressive recovery along the Abu Dhabi coast, after having been wiped out by the 1998 El Niño. Working with an oceanographer from the marine biodiversity section of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi Prof Burt has been developing detailed maps of coastal current patterns in the southern Gulf.