NOAA says the world is experiencing its fourth global coral bleaching event. How does coral bleaching occur? Warming oceans ...

Backscattered light from the surrounding benthos contributed > 20% of total scalar irradiance at the coral tissue surface and enhanced symbiont photosynthesis and the local O₂ concentration, ...

Acropora corals are also known to harbor Symbiodiniaceae, a family of algae that creates nutrients for the coral by converting sunlight into energy by way of photosynthesis. In exchange ...