Researchers and tourism operators are alarmed as a survey of the WA coast after an intense marine heatwave reveals ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2011), pp. 1285-1296 (12 pages) We determined the source of fatty acids in scleractinian corals by separately measuring and comparing the δ13C values of ...

A new type symbiotic alga lends its brown color to a Porites coral from Abu Dhabi reefs. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

It is by far the largest single coral colony ever discovered, easily beating the previous record holder - a giant Porites ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. We characterized the annual luminescent and skeletal density banding patterns in 51 massive Porites corals from 15 reefs from six ...

What is the staghorn coral? Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers of a male deer. Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and ...

The Coral Triangle is a marine region that spans those parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste with at least 500 species of reef-building ...

He used a long pole to leap along the coral reef edge. Darwin’s specimen of Porites coral. This group of corals takes on many forms and its skeleton is a favourite habitat for Christmas tree worms, ...

Palau reefs are hosts to over 300 species of coral, nine species of sea grass, and 2,000 species of fish. Each member of this ecosystem depends the others to survive. When one piece of the link is ...

The researchers evaluated UZELA's effectiveness in increasing zooplankton abundance and enhancing feeding rates in two Hawaiian coral species, Porites compressa and Montipora capitata. They ...

The pair say they were struck by the degree of bleaching in gigantic boulder-like bommies, or reef outcrops, comprised of a stony coral called porites ... to more than 300 species of corals ...