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Ocean Alliance - WHALE GALLERY
Right Whale. Whale lice (or Cyamid Crustaceans) live on the callosites and make them appear white, pink, yellow or orange. Barnacles and parasitic worms may also live on them as well ...
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CHAMP - Coral Bleaching - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Coral bleaching is not well understood by scientists. Many different hypotheses ...
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CHAMP - Coral Reef Biology - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
The actual process by which zooxanthellae are lost from coral tissue is still ... World Resources Institure. Washington D.C. [top] What are coral reef diseases? Reef building corals appear to have become more susceptible to disease following the numerous stressors imposed on them by ...
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Corals
When this happens the corals appear white in colour and are referred to as bleached. Excessive growth and accumulation of phytoplankton and ... symbiotic algae inside them, causing them to turn white, or ‘bleach’, and eventually die. While coral reefs are sensitive to environmental changes, they appear to be able to recover effectively from ...
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Blue Sky
By the same principle water molecules in clouds are sufficiently large to scatter all wavelengths equally. Therefore the scattered light contains all wavelengths and clouds appear white. If ... here on Earth from time to time, particularly in desert areas, where the sky may appear white, brown, or some other colour.
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer: Primer: Overview of Climate Change Research : Biosphere
When the algae die, corals are “bleached” and appear white. (See “Current Coral Bleaching Hot Spots” on this site to learn more.) Because all species ...
exploratorium.edu


Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association :: News :: Shannon's Boat Blog :: November 27, 2005
The older animals are all scratched up, to the point where they appear white underwater. There were 5 of us on board the small boat, and we were trying ...
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Mass coral bleaching - the result of simple food starvation?
The reason for the white appearance? Bleached corals lose their zooxanthellae, the photosynthesizing algae ... prey, corals eat a lot and become “fat.” They appear to take a “feast or famine” approach to this feeding ( ...
fisherycrisis.com


SABO's Avian Oddities: White Sandhill Crane
Friendly Businesses Birding Tips & Sites | Hummingbirds | Birding NW Mexico | Photo Albums | Links | Contact SABO A white Sandhill Crane On December 27, 2003, Michele Nichols, a participant in one of SABO's ... . The bright red forehead is characteristic of adults, but the dark feathers on the wings appear to be natural pigment rather than mud stains typical of mature breeding birds, suggesting that ...
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USGS National Wildlife Health Center - White Nose Syndrome News
The condition has been dubbed 'white-nose syndrome,' after a white fungus seen on bats' noses -- but scientists aren' ...
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