Hemisphere, in all ocean bases. Coral are animal. They live with algae, who provide 95 of the nutritional elements for the coral animal. This relationship is sensitive to elevated temperatures. If temperatures are elevated by a degree celsius, two to three fahrenheit, and stay there a month or more, corals bleach. When you see a white coral, it is essentially starving to death. Now, bleaching isnt a death sentence. Corals can recover. Even for those corals that do recover, they have lasting physiological impacts. A coral that bleaches and recovers will have slower Growth Rates for about two to four years. Its reproductive output will go to zero for about five years. They become immunocompromised, so theyre highly susceptible to disease for one to two years. Corals are vitally important pause theyre the engineers of the coral reef ecosystem. Without corals, you no longer