{"id":1579,"date":"2023-01-09T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecology.shanghai-visual.org\/web\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2023-01-29T01:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:21:39","slug":"datavis-2022-project-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecology.shanghai-visual.org\/web\/datavis-2022-project-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Our group members were all interested in the topic of the Sea and Ocean, especially a wonderful animal in the sea\u2014\u2014coral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coral is an ecologically important but often overlooked animal. We found that more and more corals are becoming unhealthy and even dying, which also shows a natural state of contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a habitat for many creatures in the sea, corals play an important role in protecting biodiversity. At the same time, coral also affects the carbon cycle through photosynthesis, calcification, etc., and it is also a piece of important evidence to record the changes in the marine environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corals are always colorful and colorful in our impression, but this is not the case now. Actually, the original coral is white, and its beautiful color comes from the symbiotic algae in the body. These algae provide nutrients to the coral through photosynthesis. If they die or leave the coral, the coral will lose nutrients and bleach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And these algae need to live in a suitable environment. With the increase of sea temperature and other issues, the number of algae symbiotic on corals is decreasing, which further aggravates coral bleaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope to start with a small animal species and look for data in different aspects, such as temperature changes, human pollution, biological invasion, etc., to explore the impact of the environment on coral bleaching<\/strong>, and to call on more people to pay attention to the ocean and ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dataset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Main dataset: coral average bleaching rate<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From the beginning, we found a dataset on the average bleaching rate for the whole world.This has helped us establish an initial understanding of the coral bleaching problem. It’s a large dataset with the coral bleaching rate for each measurement point, and the latitude and longitude of that measurement point, as well as some climatic elements associated with bleaching ( Depth,SST,SSTA,DHW… ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To understand what is in this table, we first looked up what the abbreviations in the table header stood for. For instance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n