http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1582 Suvrat Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:18:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1582 The ability to reform colonies and skeletons after normal conditions resumed depends also upon the symbiotic association with algae. Skeleton building is more efficient with the algal partner present. But what if the corals expel algae as temperature of the water rises as it is expected with global warming? Did the experiment control for temperature? The ability to reform colonies and skeletons after normal conditions resumed depends also upon the symbiotic association with algae. Skeleton building is more efficient with the algal partner present. But what if the corals expel algae as temperature of the water rises as it is expected with global warming? Did the experiment control for temperature?

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1581 Robert V Sobczak Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:25:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1581 This is the issue that really scares me ... of course things always turn out differently than we can extrapolate. Your post highlights that. Nature is always one step ahead of the human mind. This is the issue that really scares me … of course things always turn out differently than we can extrapolate. Your post highlights that. Nature is always one step ahead of the human mind.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1580 Monado Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:16:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/15/corals-survive-acid-oceans-by-switching-to-soft-bodied-mode/#comment-1580 Very interesting! Very interesting!

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