If the Great Barrier Reef was a person, doctors would describe it as a patient with serious chronic conditions that have to be closely monitored and managed. It wouldnt yet be in intensive care, but hospital reports would certainly describe its condition as serious and multiple treatments would be administered to assist with recovery.
Dr Hardisty said the increased frequency of mass coral bleaching events was "uncharted territory" for the Reef, with this year's bleaching event the fourth in seven years and the first to occur during a La Niņa.
"In our 36 years of monitoring the condition of the Great Barrier Reef we have not seen bleaching events so close together," he said.
Every summer the Reef is at risk of temperature stress, bleaching and potentially mortality and our understanding of how the ecosystem responds to that is still developing.
"The 2020 and 2022 bleaching events, while extensive, didn't reach the intensity of the 2016 and 2017 events and, as a result, we have seen less mortality. These latest results demonstrate the Reef can still recover in periods free of intense disturbances."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-07/coral-reefs-thriving-off-mudjimba-mooloolaba-beaches/101938708
There's coral down south in Port Phillip Bay as well.
theconversation.com/antarctic-seas-host-a-surprising-mix-of-lifeforms-and-now-we-can-map-them-99667
How healthy is the Great Barrier Reef?
https://www.reefplan.qld.gov.au/resources/explainers/how-healthy-is-the-gbr
If the Great Barrier Reef was a person, doctors would describe it as a patient with serious chronic conditions that have to be closely monitored and managed. It wouldnt yet be in intensive care, but hospital reports would certainly describe its condition as serious and multiple treatments would be administered to assist with recovery.
https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/highest-coral-cover-central-northern-reef-36-years
-- Edited by Plain Truth on Tuesday 7th of February 2023 07:50:34 PM
-- Edited by Plain Truth on Tuesday 7th of February 2023 07:51:17 PM
Dr Hardisty said the increased frequency of mass coral bleaching events was "uncharted territory" for the Reef, with this year's bleaching event the fourth in seven years and the first to occur during a La Niņa.
"In our 36 years of monitoring the condition of the Great Barrier Reef we have not seen bleaching events so close together," he said.
Every summer the Reef is at risk of temperature stress, bleaching and potentially mortality and our understanding of how the ecosystem responds to that is still developing.
"The 2020 and 2022 bleaching events, while extensive, didn't reach the intensity of the 2016 and 2017 events and, as a result, we have seen less mortality. These latest results demonstrate the Reef can still recover in periods free of intense disturbances."