Coral reefs, such as Los Jardines de la Reina, pictured, have microbes that may help protect the coral against certain nutrient imbalances. Credit: Robert Walker…
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A unique stress experiment aligned deoxygenation stress to the natural night-day cycle of common reef-building corals from The Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Morgan Bennett-Smith Ocean…
A high-power microscopic image of the skeleton from Turbinaria peltata shows a pattern of both ion-attachment (in blue) and nanoparticle attachment (in green) of new…
A close-up of a crown-of-thorns starfish. The creatures eat Acropora corals until they’re effectively homeless. Credit: Morgan Pratchett A world-first study on the Great Barrier…
A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades.…
The reef at North Rock, Bermuda, similar to the reef (Sea Venture Shoals) where coral fragments were collected for this study. Credit: Stacy Peltier New…
Early stage herbivorous crown-of-thorns starfish camouflaged against the coralline algae that it has been feeding on, with a recent feeding scar directly adjacent. Credit: Daniel…
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists. Credit: UCL A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered…
In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases…
A colony of Leptoseris hawaiiensis at 315 feet in the Au’au Channel Hawaii. Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii New research published in…
Islands in the Maldives – where sandy or gravel islands sit on top of coral reef platforms – are among those that could be affected…
The same area of Scott Reef photographed in 2010, and again in 2012 after Cyclone Lua. Credit: James Gilmour/AIMS Research finds current models underestimate the…
Underwater coral drilling start. Credit: Jason Turl New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia…
Maps of some main study sites: Bremer Canyon and nearby canyons of the Albany Group. Transect indicated by arrows, and nominal ROV dive sites and…
(Click for full view.) Uncovering new corals on the GBR. Credit: Andrew Bird/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Scientists discovered dozens of new…
Among the ecological communities studied are corals. An international research team in which Spanish experts participate has shown that sparse species are associated spatially in…
Parrotfish numbers rise as reef quality decreases. Credit: Kendall Clements Researchers find familiar species pave the way for coral regrowth. In contrast to most other…
A clownfish in an anemone. Credit: Tim Gordon, University of Exeter Young fish can be drawn to degraded coral reefs by loudspeakers playing the sounds…
The composition of sclerites of this white and fan-shaped coral is characteristic for this species and differentiates it from others in the same genus. Credit:…
Soft coral are now dominating large areas of the shadow reef which in 1928 had many species of hard corals too. Credit: Professor Maoz Fine,…