( 2022, December 17.) Using Data to Identify Hot Spots and Predict Bleaching Events. The Florida Keys Reef retraced from https://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/corals/6d.html 

 

Another common place in which the coral reefs are located is in Florida. The area they are most known to be located is the Florida Keys Reef Tract, which is known for being the third largest-living coral barrier reef system in the world,also started in 1960. Incredibly, the Florida Keys reef tract is a protector of the ocean. It protects about 9947 km of both the coast where most reefs are located but also the rest of the ocean it covers. The protector helps control pollution of all sorts like oil, mining, touching, and collecting coral. The parts of the ocean that aren’t being protected by the Florida Keys reef tract, are known as being the “Hot Spots” of the ocean. Due to the rising temperature of the ocean. The research of this barrier and protector has stated that it has come in handy in actually reducing the amount of bleaching that has happened to the coral. It was consistent in helping in the years 1980 and 2016. The studies were made for more than 50 countries. To use to help aid the coral reefs, in at least part of the ocean. 

 

This has impacted the environment in a more positive way. It helped the risk of bleaching several more coral reefs beds. The exact increase rates were “…increased at a rate of 4% per year–.” due to the fact that this method has impacted not only the coral but also the whole environment surrounded by them. Not only have they helped the temperature rise to calm down but they have also caused sea level, and human activities, including pollution to be saved and maintained. Fun fact: the most prominent mass bleaching, exactly 58%, of it was being affected heavily during the El Niño pandemic, due to the sea level rise and average tropical sea surface temperatures.