Wakefield Adhya, S. (2023, January 23.) The Survival Secrets of “Super Reefs”. Retrieved from https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/survival-secrets-super-reefs/

 

Ongoing problems with reef bleaching and temperature rise in the ocean and sediment levels, have led to the coral reefs population to decrease. “Globally, we have already lost 50% of coral reefs.” In regards to Dr. Elizabeth McLeod, TNC’s global reefs lead. But early this year, we’ve come to a conclusion that a certain amount of coral reefs have been able to survive and withstand these circumstances. Coral reefs have swayed the human’s perspective, they’ve gotten the attention of tourists to help aid the economies costalline communities. Progressively the communities are supporting up to 25% of marine life. Which made it so that they’d have  a better chance at surviving, adding on to that some stronger coral reefs have worked on their own to fight. To help their survival time further a little longer, they use their own  internal energy stores also by consuming other organisms around their environment and ecosystem. In studies at Stanford University coral reefs have been renamed with “Super Coral Reefs” for withstanding these effects. 

 

An ongoing obstacle that coral reefs and their habitats face is climate change. If everyone as a whole could come together to try to reduce and aid Climate change, then it will impact and manage the ocean sea life positively. Leading to a lively seaworld. But if not it has come to the idea that by 2050 approximately 90-100% of the coral reefs population will be gone. Coral have provided sorts of blockages and barricades of huge, full waves from entering and passing over the shorelines, that would damage houses and other buildings. What over 1 billion people don’t realize is that we rely on them for food, livelihoods, and land. In helping coral reefs people will be given benefits back, a positive feedback loop.