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re: Scientists discover stunning 310-mile coral reef corridor in Gulf of Mexico
Posted on 7/24/19 at 4:09 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
Posted on 7/24/19 at 4:09 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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The reefs are in or near Mexican waters. Not much the US could/should do about it.
Did you get this from the story? Because I was looking to see where it lies, but couldn't find anything
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Posted on 7/24/19 at 4:12 pm to SEClint
Where is it located??
Posted on 7/24/19 at 4:18 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Seems to me like nature is running its course then.
and many reefs are destroyed because of them. Posted on 7/24/19 at 7:53 pm to SEClint
I couldn't see anything that showed WHERE it is.
Posted on 7/24/19 at 8:06 pm to 6R12
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I couldn't see anything that showed WHERE it is.
I don't either but looking at the pictures those look like a lagoon reef based on the flora and fauna. While they could be pretty much anywhere on the Gulf Coast of Mexico my guess for ones that widespread they would almost have to be in the Bay of Campeche area.
Posted on 7/24/19 at 8:14 pm to 6R12
yeah, no indication of exactly where it is.
I think it's fake news
I think it's fake news
Posted on 7/24/19 at 8:42 pm to Darth_Vader
So they “discover” this reef and immediately it’s threatened. Give me a break.
I’d bet the reef was known about but it only now got “discovered”
I would also like to see the reef illustrated on a map
I’d bet the reef was known about but it only now got “discovered”
I would also like to see the reef illustrated on a map
This post was edited on 7/24/19 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 7/24/19 at 8:52 pm to Motorboat
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Did you get this from the story? Because I was looking to see where it lies, but couldn't find anything
It's vaguely in what I think is the original article. Article
Someone in that article had a link to the original Mexican press release.
This post was edited on 7/24/19 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:14 pm to SEClint
And they post a photo of Lionfish. 
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:19 pm to TxWadingFool
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They eat every other fish they can get into their mouths
Correct
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which screws up the chain and eventually kills the coral on the reefs,
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:20 pm to Scooba
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And they post a photo of Lionfish
It may have been the only fish they could find...
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:26 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I think the thought is that all reefs are important and all are threatened. And more often that not humans frick things up rather than making them better.
Well humans have been doing their thing and what do you know this reef is just fine, nay flourished alongside humans. Yet they are supposed to instantly change their behavior and alter their livelihood because a reef that is flourishing is discovered?
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:36 pm to Obtuse1
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Hermatypic (calcium fixing/reef-building) corals can only live in very specific ecosystems. The water has to be warm with relatively high light levels without lots of cloud cover, with low turbidity and very clean water (with have a very high redox potential). They become stressed outside a very narrow temperature band and will expel the Zoozanthella (the symbiotic dinoflagellate algae that live in its tissue) this is called bleaching and when it occurs the animal will almost always dies, with the tissue falling off and leaving the skeleton.
The problem with the mass destruction of coral reefs is that they are the ocean's nursery. The intricate structures of the coral allow for all sorts of animals to breed and for the young to grow sheltered from predators. If you take the coral reefs out of the equation the diversity and makeup of the ocean's biomass will change considerably.
Reefs are extremely important in the earth's entire ecosystem.
That didn’t really answer his question. If earth is slowly warming than wouldn’t that simply mean that the narrow band of supportive ecosystem for reefs would move slowly away from the equator?
From what I remember about coral bleaching, doesn’t it have something to do with carbon in the atmosphere?
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:37 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
It is in SW GOM
Earlier study on same area of multiple reefs
LINK https://www.uv.mx/personal/leoortiz/files/2013/10/Ortiz-Lozano-et-al-2013.pdf
Earlier study on same area of multiple reefs
LINK https://www.uv.mx/personal/leoortiz/files/2013/10/Ortiz-Lozano-et-al-2013.pdf
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:39 pm to UpToPar
quote:Anal bleaching sometimes has something to do with the amount of smoke in the atmosphere.
From what I remember about coral bleaching, doesn’t it have something to do with carbon in the atmosphere?
“She’s so high, high above me, bleached her anus, Aphrodite.”
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:43 pm to ScubaTiger
My degree is in Marine Biology, and I'm a professional Environmental Scientist. What you got besides a "C" card?
This post was edited on 7/24/19 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:43 pm to Adam Banks
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what do you know this reef is just fine, nay flourished alongside humans.
Where are you getting that it is flourishing or not? I can't get much of a read on the health of the reef from the pictures without knowing what the historical ecological norms for its area and a lot more pictures. Some of the pictures indicate at least some of the area may have been dominated by Acropora species but not anymore.
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:44 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
I was thinking zona norte
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:46 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
This area is just west of the Yucatan peninsula. 91 W degrees by 21 N degrees.
Posted on 7/24/19 at 9:48 pm to Obtuse1
Probably the part about it being 310 miles in span and in an area known to be frequented by fishermen. The scientists aren’t the first people to figure out there is a reef and habitat there I can assure you.
This post was edited on 7/24/19 at 9:50 pm
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