Monthly Archives: February 2019

Thesis

Claim/Thesis:Rising sea surface temperatures are the main risk for coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef.

Subpoint:Vulnerability to climate change due to rising temperature (Sea surface temp.)

Subpoint:Rising sea surface temperatures.

Subpoint:Coral bleaching is the stress response of coral losing its photosynthetic pigments.

finding lit. on topic reflection

When finding my sources, I searched through the Longwood library online site looking for what causes coral bleaching. For each paper I found I would read the title and see if it was relevant to my topic of coral bleaching. I would also read the abstracts of each paper. The only problem I ran into was that their were papers that talked about how coral bleaching affected the assorted fish that lived in coral reefs. This is something I am not researching. All together it was pretty easy to find sources on coral bleaching because it is such a worldwide phenomenon, and there was a lot of information given in the abstracts of each paper I found.