Global warming has taken a serious toll on Taiwan's ecology as the type and amount of algae growing under the sea in waters off southern Taiwan's Kenting National Park and the island's northeastern region have largely perished, an expert warned Thursday.According to Lin Mei-shiu, a professor of National Taiwan Ocean University's Marine Biology department, long-term over-development and high temperatures in the summer have caused algae habitats and many types of algae to disappear. Since 2007, an obvious reduction in diversity of the plant has severely damaged the growing environment of coral reefs, she added.
Since 1992, growth periods of red algae and brown gracilaria that were often seen in the two regions have noticeably varied and their length have become shorter.
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