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Defensive chemistry may be used against consumers and competitors by invasive species as a strategy for colonization and perpetuation in a new area. There are relatively few studies of negative ...
Three people were arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence for trafficking dead black and soft corals, as well as Trapezium Horse Conches, in Andhra Pradesh. The endangered marine ...
The officials seized around 9.812 kg of dead black corals (scientific name: Antipatharia, local name: Indrajaal), 0.286 kg of dead soft corals (scientific name: Alcyonacea, local name: Mahendrajaal) ...
National Facility for Coastal and Marine Research, a centralized hub established in Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology is a pioneering initiative and a first of its kind in the country for ...
The list currently includes all coral species in the orders Gorgonacea, Antipatharia, Stylasterina, Scleractinia, Milleporina, Helioporacea and Alcyonacea, specimens of which were collected by police ...
The NIWA Biodiversity Memoir (NBM) series comprises technical works that describe New Zealand’s invertebrate marine life—sponges, corals, hydroids, worms, molluscs, crustaceans, sea stars and ...
The Conservation Services Programme (CSP) is DOC’s primary mechanism to understand and address fishing related threats to protected species. A proportion of funding required to investigate and ...
Cold-water corals and sponges are found globally, at depths of just a few meters in temperate and polar ecosystems, to well beyond the photic zone and into the abyssal plains of every ocean. The ...