{"id":344772,"date":"2024-10-01T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344772"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:13:45","slug":"all-the-dead-coral-from-the-bleaching-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344772","title":{"rendered":"All the Dead Coral from the Bleaching. \u00a0Part 4."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Jennifer Marohasy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-censoring is a real thing \u2013 that I refuse to engage in.    Over the last year there has been a dramatic reduction in live hard coral cover at many reefs at the Great Barrier Reef, but this has not been documented in official statistics or in the official reporting that prefers the narrative of gradual and linear decline \u2013 whereas recent loss was dramatic at some reefs due to cyclones and at others due to bleaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the bay from where I live, at the coral reef fringing Wreck Beach, Great Keppel Island, for example, there is a lot of dead coral \u2013 so much.  The coral is dead from the very dramatic bleaching last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patches of dead coral are almost exclusively Acropora spp.<\/em>, and of both plate and branching forms.  The Porites spp.<\/em> and other corals, if they bleached, they have most recovered and completely.   And the fish \u2013 there are still so many, and they are so colourful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did take several photographs of a juvenile yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicus<\/em>) as it swam across dead coral now infested with dying algae.  It is the case that after the corals went white, they became infested with green algae and after that, well the algae are now brown and everything quite dead.  But there are still so many fish, and many of the fish are so colourful and seemingly obvious to the dead Acropora spp.<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It will be interesting to see what happens next, whether there is recruitment \u2013 tiny new corals finding a foothold on the now dead plates \u2013 after the coral spawning that will be soon, usually just a few days after the full moon in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the case that nature tends to follow cycles and to know them we need to acknowledge death when it happens and look to see if new life follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Far back left is Jenn Mayes, and in foreground Jenn Marohasy, Marika and Ewa. Thanks for seeing the corals with me \u2014 dead and alive. And I will write about all the nudibranchs we found and photographed in a next blog post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of my previous scribbles on last summer\u2019s coral bleaching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bald Rock reef bleached April: https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2024\/04\/stark-white-fields-of-bleached-acropora-great-keppel-island\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wreck Beach reef, bleached April: https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2024\/04\/wrecked-day-3-part-3-great-keppel-island-april-2024\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About natural climate cycles:  https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2024\/07\/he-denies-natural-climate-cycles\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Self-censoring is a real thing \u2013 that I refuse to engage in. Over the last year there has been a dramatic reduction in live hard coral cover at many reefs at the Great Barrier Reef, but this has not been documented in official statistics or in the official reporting that prefers the narrative of gradual and linear decline \u2013 whereas recent loss was dramatic at some reefs due to cyclones and at others due to 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