Communication arising. Is coral bleaching really adaptive?
From an experiment in which corals are transplanted between two depths on a Panamanian coral reef, Baker infers that bleaching may sometimes help reef corals to survive environmental change. Although Baker's results hint at further mechanisms by which reef-building corals may acclimatize to changing light conditions, we do not consider that the evidence supports his inference.
Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove
O
Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Jones
Ross J
RJ
Ward
Selina
S
Loh
William K
WK
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D003063:Cnidaria / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004141:Dinoflagellida / Q000502:physiology; D008027:Light; D013559:Symbiosis