News, U. H. (2022, April 5). Delicate balance of coral reef processes creates management challenges. University of Hawaiʻi System News. Retrieved August 28, 2022, from https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/04/05/coral-reef-processes/
Coral reefs are very important to the environment, however they are being damaged by algae blooms, predation, biomass production, and the cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus .No reef is able to protect itself from all of those things. There are more than 500 reefs and they support a very big part of the ocean and support people on land. It also talked about if some species are more important with others.
This article goes over the causes of a coral reef being unhealthy and that a reef needs all the organisms it has to get over some of the causes of its downfall at the moment. That brought them to a question of are some organisms more important than others. I thought that it was interesting how they thought that maybe some organisms contribute more to the reef than others. They tested it and it turned out that no organism was more important than the other.
This is so true, with the acidification affecting the water it causes the ocean to harm not only the plant and organisms but animals as well, that contribute to central part of the ocean life system. Acidification is a harmful suspect. I bleaches the coral hurts them near to death.