Bleaching of Caribbean Reef Corals

珊瑚白化是一个活的珊瑚动物 驱逐通常留在珊瑚中的共生藻类 组织. 尽管如此， 1987年秋天的加勒比海。 波特和费特医生 格鲁吉亚大学将对这一现象进行分析 在佛罗里达群岛的一个先前研究得很好的地方。 他们将 监测漂白事件和随后的再感染或死亡 1988年在基拉戈国家海洋精算师的珊瑚。 实地工作将包括1988年初对该地区进行人口普查， 建立新的监测试验点 恢复、再感染和同位素分析。

Coral bleaching is a process whereby living coral animals expell the symbiotic algae that are nomally retained in the coral tissue. This has occurred to an unprecendented extent thoughout the Caribbean in the fall of 1987. Drs. Porter and Fitt of the University of Georgia will conduct an analysis of this phenomenon at a previously well studied site in the Florida Keys. They will monitor bleaching events and subsequent reinfection or death of the corals in the Key Largo National Marine Sactuary during 1988. The field work will include an early 1988 census of the area and the establishment of new experimental sites for monitoring recovery, reinfection and isotope analysis.