Coral Reefs And Marine Ecosystem

Coral Reefs play a critical role in marine ecosystems. Scientists have found that the reefs not only harbour amazing biodiversity but are actively involve in generating new life forms. In fact the new research overturns the ideas hat coral sea life originated elsewhere. The new study highlights that coral reefs give birth to a dazzling number of new species of sea creatures.
The study of coral reefs impact on sea life was conducted by Wolfgang Kiessling of the Humboldt University of Berlin. According to him coral reefs are not only very active at generating biodiversity in the oceans but also good at exporting it to other ecosystems. So far the general or conventional opinion is that coral reefs are only ecological attraction – that species go there from other places. This amazing lead had com from the study of a database of fossil organisms that lived on the sea floor from the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago. They made a comparative study of the number of new genera that first appeared in coral reefs those in shallow-water environs. They found the reefs were responsible for about 50 per cent more.
The study report published in the Journal Science maintained that coral reefs should be protected, if not we will forever lose the coral reefs that generate new species which are important to sustain marine biodiversity. The imminent danger to the reefs lie in the increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that damages coral reefs as seas become warmer. If we don’t safeguard the coral reefs, the wheels of generating marine life as a whole grind to a halt.