Soft corals, the penned, fanned and tentacled corals, of Lord Howe Island appear more resilient to coral bleaching than their hard coral cousins, a team of marine biologists led by UNSW Science finds.
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The relatively pristine coral populations of WA's inshore Kimberley region are better equipped to survive ocean warming than those in the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park, according to a new Curtin University study.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2022
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Ten new species of New Zealand soft corals have been discovered by marine biologist Dr. Gustav Kessel, who recently completed his PhD at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Jun 10, 2022
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The bottom of the ocean is full of mysteries but scientists have recently uncovered one of its best-kept secrets. For 25 years, drug hunters have been searching for the source of a natural chemical that had shown promise ...
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May 23, 2022
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You can love something to death. That is one way of thinking about a new Stanford University study that reveals how a common component of many sunscreens worn by coral reef-exploring tourists may hasten the demise of these ...
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May 5, 2022
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Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. With a new method, researchers from Uppsala University were able to predict how individual microalgae ...
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Apr 27, 2022
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An international research team uses a global sampling of seawater to reveal which tropical reef fish occur where. To identify species and families, they successfully used the residual DNA shed by the animals present in the ...
Ecology
Apr 21, 2022
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An international team of researchers, including several from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa, has quantified five critical ecological processes on more than 500 coral reefs worldwide to understand how these processes ...
Ecology
Apr 4, 2022
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To our horror, another mass coral bleaching event may be striking the Great Barrier Reef, with water temperatures reaching up to 3 degrees Celsius higher than average in some places. This would be the sixth such event since ...
Ecology
Mar 21, 2022
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A new seabird scarcely bigger than a swallow and endemic to New Caledonia is described in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (11 March 2022) by a team including CNRS and INRAE scientists from the Chizé Centre ...
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