Fluorescence Could Indicate Health of Corals
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Author of the Article: Andrea Thompson
Source: Live Science
URL: http://www.livescience.com/27948-coral-fluorescence-health.html
By Ivan Cukanić
The health of corals could be measured by their fluorescence. In an experiment, scientists measured the fluorescence of corals before during and after stress. The stress was the change of temperature: from normal to hot and from normal to cold. Before the stress, they were fairly fluorescent, during the stress they started losing their fluorescence and after the stress their fluorescence was minimal. During the stress, algae started dying and escaping the corals. This new technique of measuring health of corals would be much easier for scientists and much less invasive.
This article was interesting for me because it was informing the world of a new and better way of measuring the health of corals. This could help save coral reafs and heal damaged corals. This article was written two days ago, so I think this discovery was quite new and that not all scientists that are experts in this field know about this. This article helped spread the word about this.