... of these maladies are stress related, and all affect the corals directly. These disease actually kill the coral tissue while advancing in a band around the coral, leaving the white coral skeleton behind. While studies (Edmunds 1991) have shown that BBD, caused by cyanophyte Phormidium corallyticum, may have a role in maintaining coral diversity, all other maladies are detrimental to the coral's overall ... Amazon or the emissions from car exhaust are all increasing the water temperatures which is not only reducing the area of land by melting the ice caps but is destroying a key wave bre...

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