coral bleaching

基本解釋

Image: Coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef/Matt Kiefer, Flickr
圖片：澳大利亞的大堡礁的珊瑚白化現(xiàn)象
There has already been a major coral bleaching event in Indonesia this summer, in which more than 60% of the coral off the coast of Aceh province has been affected.
今年夏天在印度尼西亞已經(jīng)發(fā)生了一起嚴(yán)重的珊瑚白化事件，亞齊?。ˋceh province）沿海大約60%的珊瑚均受到感染。
Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
其他對于大堡礁及其生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的環(huán)境壓力來自徑流的水質(zhì)問題，伴隨著大規(guī)模珊瑚白化的氣候變化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆發(fā)現(xiàn)象。

Four weeks after the peak summer temperatures, the coral bleaching started.
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Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland, who has been studying coral bleaching since the early 1980s, presented new work to the conference on what exactly it is that causes the algae to become burdensome.
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