An international team of researchers have shown that vulnerable coral populations in the eastern tropical Pacific have been completely isolated from the rest of the Pacific Ocean for at least the past two decades.
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Coral cannot survive on its own for long. It needs to create a symbiotic relationship with algae to survive. Algae provides approximately 90 percent of the energy coral needs, which means that their partnership must be preserved ...
Ecology
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The coral wonderlands of the Abrolhos Islands off the Mid West coast, and the fishing industries that rely on them, are at worse risk of damage from climate change than previously thought.
Environment
Mar 17, 2016
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A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), led by Group Leader Chuya Shinzato in Professor Noriyuki Satoh's Marine Genomics Unit, has analyzed the genome of 155 samples of Acropora ...
Environment
Dec 10, 2015
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Lathering up with sunscreen may prevent sunburn and protect against cancer, but it is also killing coral reefs around the world.
Environment
Oct 20, 2015
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Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, the Australian Institute ...
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Jun 25, 2015
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Fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia by researcher Sancia van der Meij from Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands lead to the discovery of a new coral-dwelling gall crab. The new gall crab, named Lithoscaptus semperi, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2015
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Researchers in Australia have found that where baby corals choose to settle is influenced by ocean temperature and the presence of their symbiotic algae in the water.
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2015
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Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighborhood, and use that ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs.
Environment
Aug 21, 2014
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It seems that coral reefs are experiencing something their human counterparts have been for years – a shrinking "empty nest" syndrome.
Environment
Apr 29, 2014
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