Limited iron availability shown to exacerbate coral bleaching
Friday, August 26, 2011 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely held that coral bleaching occurs when temperatures and solar radiation are high, overwhelming antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and their coral hosts. Little understood are the biological mechanisms underlying such destabilization under stressful conditions.
