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Coral Reefs

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Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae) and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.

depends_on — Reef-building corals derive the majority of their energy budget from carbon fixed by symbionts living in their tissue, which is what allows them to build large structures in nutrient-poor water.displaced_from — Bleaching is the loss of the symbionts from host tissue: the host expels them, or they lose their pigments, leaving the white skeleton visible through transparent tissue.supplies — Calcification is light-enhanced because the energy for the ion pumping that drives aragonite precipitation comes substantially from symbiont photosynthesis.Coral calcificationCoral calcificationReef-building corals (Scleractinia)Reef-building corals (Scl…Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae)Zooxanthellae (Symbiodini…
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  1. Reef-building corals (Scleractinia) · depends_on · Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae)

    Reef-building corals derive the majority of their energy budget from carbon fixed by symbionts living in their tissue, which is what allows them to build large structures in nutrient-poor water.

  2. Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae) · displaced_from · Reef-building corals (Scleractinia)

    Bleaching is the loss of the symbionts from host tissue: the host expels them, or they lose their pigments, leaving the white skeleton visible through transparent tissue.

  3. Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae) · supplies · Coral calcification

    Calcification is light-enhanced because the energy for the ion pumping that drives aragonite precipitation comes substantially from symbiont photosynthesis.