Sentences with phrase «branching corals»

Both red and white pillar candles will look equally stunning on this 5 - branch coral candle holder.

Populations of branching coral colonies are often genetically identical, making them extremely susceptible to threats such as disease and temperature shock.

The 2016 bleaching event resulted in 30 % mortality on the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals dying of the heat before they bleached and the loss of branching corals creating less complex reef structure.

Isis hippuris is a yellow, branching coral found in the tropical waters of the western Pacific.

«While many branching corals dominate under normal pH conditions offering ample hiding space for the different species of zooplankton, ocean acidification shifts the community to large, massive bouldering corals, which offer the reef - associated plankton little opportunity for hiding».

It is not unusual to see large turtles during this dive and the wall is crammed with macro, colorful soft and hard corals Along the wall there are also some big Branching corals with shoals of Razor fish hanging out around them.

Such temperatures would kill off most coral reefs, and yet the Samoan lagoon hosts courtyards of antler - like branching corals and mound corals the size of refrigerators.

«In March, we measured a lot of heavily bleached branching corals that were still alive, but we didn't see many survivors this week,» says Dr Andrew Hoey, who is currently working from Lizard Island Research Station.

In just 40 years, the Caribbean's spectacular branched corals have been flattened.

Branched coral rubble, for example, is very durable (Ford and Kench, 2012), and while coral rubble is relatively common on the outer reef flat, it is not a major island constituent at this site.

Instead of densely branched branching corals, robust mounding species of hard coral grow, offering the zooplankton little shelter.

Laura Ashley Coral Coast Daybed Set features a repeating motif of stylized branch coral that creates a casual medallion with a contemporary feel.

Goniolithion species: A red algae that has a calcareous internal skeleton and looks like a small, fragile branching coral.

There are many varieties of corals, but the major reef - building ones are the massive forms of brain coral; various types of finger coral; two well - known branching corals, elkhorn and staghorn; and sheet coral.

From 10 - 25m, there is a gentle slope with various branching corals, including table corals with Yellow - margin moray eels, sponges, whip corals, small sea fans and a multi-coloured array of soft corals.

The terrain has a great diversity of cover, from branching corals, to coating corals and blue coral.

* The 18 - to 59 - cm warming - induced sea - level rise that is predicted for the coming century by the IPCC falls well within the range (2 to 6 mm per year) of typical coral vertical extension rates, which exhibited a modal value of 7 to 8 mm per year during the Holocene and can be more than double that value in certain branching corals.

The 2016 bleaching event resulted in 30 % mortality on the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals dying of the heat before they bleached and the loss of branching corals creating less complex reef structure.

The rosy periwinkle yields treatments for cancer, as does a yellow, branching coral found off the coast of Japan.

Many of the branching corals that Mote divers had planted in the sea were scoured away.

Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

Beginning in May, van Oppen and her team will start collecting adults of the branching coral Pocillopora acuta from the Great Barrier Reef, and will grow them in the Australian Institute of Marine Science's massive National Sea Simulator, an aquarium facility that provides controlled tanks to replicate open - ocean conditions.

Sometimes it's only the fast - growing branching corals, but some of the others are horrible to see; corals that are four, five, six hundred years old — they die, too.»

But as many have since discovered, branching corals, especially Acropora, actually thrive in nursery environments, and their arms easily break off to form dozens or hundreds of new colonies.

The research, which was carried out in partnership with the Western Australian Marine Science Institution, also found that massive corals had a better chance of surviving and recovering from bleaching than branching corals.

Staghorn coral is a branching coral, while yellow scroll coral is a wavy coral resembling cabbage or lettuce leaves.

But new coral colonies form in the months and years afterward, some even originating from pieces of branching coral that had been broken off by the storm.

«Until the 1970s, these reefs were dominated by two species that were close relatives of the branching corals that dominate the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef.

Here at Fitzroy Island there are so far only six trees, using two different types of resilient and fast - growing coral — bushy and branching coral, with four species being tested in total.

It has an abundance of hard corals, including table and branching corals.

The outer frame of a reef which forms the basis for the whole ecosystem consists mostly of branching corals.

Isla Holbox does not have any coral reefs and the gulf seabed is basically seaweed, branch coral, and sand / clay.

Before the reef edge proper, there are «hedgerows» of branching coral.

Gigantic coral bommies create elaborate structures that provide security to many species of fish and invertebrates, while the banded sea snake glides in between the fields of branching corals.

Some of the branching corals looks very new and delicate, and is growing amongst the mushroom corals which seemed particularly numerous here.

«Seamarc's unique propagation techniques; whereby broken or threatened corals are harvested, attached to portable Coral Trays and put back into the warm Maldivian waters, mean that branching corals grow faster, rapidly creating new and replenishing old habitats.

This species, though, is not a branching coral and does not offer an ideal habitat for others.