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Needed: Old-age homes for coral reef fish
2015-12-31 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Reef fish may take longer to recover from overfishing than previously thought. While smaller fish with short life spans tend to rebound quickly in protected reefs, larger, slow growing fish may need more than 100 years of strong protection to fully recover, a new study concludes. The study was published online this month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Tim McClanahan, senior conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Nick Graham, a researcher with James Cook University...
New Coral Reef Crustacean named after Sir Elton John
2015-08-31 19:40:14| Airlines - Topix.net
Dr. James Thomas from the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Florida, and his colleagues from Naturalis Natural History museum in the Netherlands made the discovery in the remote coral reefs of Raja Ampat in Indonesia. The small crustacean is living inside another reef invertebrate in a commensal association.
Carbon dioxide-spewing volcano drives reef from coral to algae
2015-08-10 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: These are high-resolution photomosaic images of a healthy coral reef (left) and a volcanically acidified algae-dominated habitat (right) at Maug Island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Credit: Image credits: C. E…
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15,000 sq km of coral reef could be lost in current mass bleaching, say scientists
2015-07-07 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A massive coral bleaching event currently ravaging coral reefs across the globe could destroy thousands of square kilometres of coral cover forever, US government scientists have said. In figures exclusively released to the Guardian, scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said about 12% of the worlds reefs have suffered bleaching in the last year. Just under half of these, an area of 12,000 sq km of coral, may be lost forever. But the devastation is only...
Caribbean coral findings may influence Barrier Reef studies
2015-02-19 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Corals may be better equipped to tolerate climate change than previously believed, according to research led by Dr Emma Kennedy from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). Working with scientists from the University of Exeter in the UK, Dr Kennedy says the findings - published in the journal Coral Reefs — relate to an extensive study of Caribbean corals, but could influence future analysis of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Using a high-resol…
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