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Hass - Marine Aquatic Environment - Coral Bleaching
Marine Aquatic
What is is?
Aquatic Areas with high levels of dissolved salt
Types
Deep ocean
Inland aquatic
Coral Reefs
Mangroves
Impacts
Environmentally
Homes for fish, Reduced Biodiversity
Communities
Ningaloo reef communities have heritage with reef, but when reef bleach, loose connection
Coral Triangle use for fishing and food, if no fish then they starve
Mitigation Strategies
Artificial Upwelling
Put a pipe in cold nutrient rich water and connect up to reef
Pros
Would provide imediate relief for reef
bring nutirent rich waters up so lots of nutrients
Cons
Only a theory, never done before
Unethical, like cleaning or putting it there in first place
Restricting the flow of chemicals out of pipes
2010 Government WA law
Pros
Have Cleaner waters
better long-term for reefs
Cons
Businesses will put chemicals and waste elswere
Causes
Runoff Pollution
Pollution of Waste on ground = goes into water source like river = goes into ocean = smother coral reef = algae stressed = coral bleaching
Coral Bleaching due to Fossil Fuels
Humans Burn Fossil Fuels = global warming = ocean temp rise = algea get stressed = coral bleaching
Human Induced Change
How are we Harming?
Overfishing
Pollution
Ocean Acidification
Habitat Destruction
Coral Bleaching
When algae within corals becomes stressed and leaves the coral, making it vulnerable and bleached white