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At these sites–located in the Florida Keys the US Virgin Islands and Maui in Hawaii–the degradation of coral reefs has caused sea floor depths to increase.
Read moreAlthough Lord Howe Island, off southeastern Australia is known for its many plant and animal species not found elsewhere, its corals are as yet to be explored, particularly using modern genetic techniques.
Read moreAfter studying two species of corals (pink sea fan and dead man's fingers), researchers at the University of Exeter have discovered distinct genetic differences within those living in different locations.
Read moreWhen corals experience stressful environmental conditions, scientists observed a significant change in which genes the corals activated within their cells.
Read moreCorals harbour a microbiome that consists of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea that help them function and thrive.
Read moreResearchers from Griffith University, in collaboration with experts in reef and chemical ecology, predicted that algae would compete with corals for space on reefs, eventually winning the battle in an environment with increased carbon dioxide.
Read moreThey arrived at this conclusion after analysing fossilised parrotfish teeth and sea urchin spines from the past 3,000 years at the reefs off Panama, in a bid to uncover the cause of the present-day shift from coral- to algae dominated reefs that i
Read moreBased on their research, which covered more than 200 coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, the orange-lined triggerfish (Balistapus undulatus) was usually found among corals and algae that build reef systems.
Read moreThe worst affected area is a 700km stretch of reefs in the GBR's northern region, which lost an average of 67% of its shallow-water corals in the past eight to nine months.
Read moreThe team focussed on a cold-water coral species (Lophelia pertusa) which grows in deep waters, creating elaborate reefs that are hotspots of biodiversity.
Read more“Having a lot of genetic variants is like buying a lot of lottery tickets,” said lead author Carlos Prada, a Earl S Tupper Post-doctoral Fellow at STRI.
Read moreThis sounds simple enough, but not when one considers that the reef - the third largest coral reef in the world - measures nearly 150 miles long and four miles wide. The question of where to place the new corals comes into play.
Read moreAn international team found that shallower reefs in Singapore waters rebounded rapidly from a major bleaching episode in 1998, despite experiencing such high levels of sedimentation that underwater visibility was typically less than two metres.
Read moreAntioxidant capacity is a critical component of stress tolerance because in a range of organisms, including corals, stressors such as high water temperature, poor water quality and even pathogen infection, produce an increase in damaging, highly r
Read moreCoral reefs are particularly vulnerable to the ocean acidification process, because reef architecture is built by the accretion of calcium carbonate, called calcification, which becomes increasingly difficult as acid concentrations increase and th
Read moreWith up to 10m tides, the Kimberley region in north Western Australia has the largest tropical tides in the world, creating naturally extreme and highly dynamic coastal habitats that corals from more typical reefs could not survive.
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