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4 years after tsunami: Corals stage comeback

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout ...





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Bleached Coral

Long-term recovery of reefs from bleaching requires local action to increase resilience

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created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

In the journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Professor Dr. Peter Glynn, and 2008 Pew Fellow for Marine Conservation and Assist ...


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Reef boom beats doom

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.


Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.


Fish species plays surprise role in aiding coral reef recovery

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created Dec 18, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a study that marks progress in understanding the basis of coral reef recovery, researchers have revealed the critical importance of a rare batfish, Platax pinnatus, in promoting the return to health of a disturbed coral ...


Bleached Montipora capitata or 'rice coral'

Tiny polyps need 2 kinds of carbon to survive coral bleaching

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created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that live ...


Tsunami reef damage recovering

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created Dec 27, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A year after the killer tsunami ravaged regions of Southeast Asia, scientists have documented the recovery of tsunami-affected coral reefs.


Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

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created Apr 11, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have reported what is thought to be one of the world’s greatest mass death of corals ever recorded as a result of the earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia on 28 March 2005.


Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Corals depends on the products of photosynthetic algae for most of their food, but they also eat tiny plankton. Now, for the first time, there is evidence of a coral eating jellyfish.


Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

What's the point of setting up marine reserves to protect coral reefs from pollution, ship groundings and overfishing if climate change could cause far more damage? A study published this week in London in Proceedings of ...


Ocean sampling yields environmental sources of coral symbionts

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created Dec 04, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

By sampling different ocean locations for the presence of an elusive but critical group of algae, researchers have gained new insight into the dwelling places of the symbiotic organisms that reef corals need for survival.



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