Sentences with phrase «coral reef»

The Maldives form a constellation of almost 1,200 coral reef islands in the Indian Ocean.

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

Cyanide fishing, whereby divers crush cyanide tablets into plastic squirt bottles of sea water and puff the solution to stun and capture live coral reef fish, is widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia despite being illegal in most countries of the region.

Coral researcher Thomas Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance in Chappaqua, New York, says the team has convincingly shown that Serratia causes white pox.

If you've ever snorkeled near a coral reef, you've probably seen neon - colored parrotfish.

As part of the Coral Reef Monitoring Program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, Porter and colleagues in 1995 staked out 160 monitoring stations, each 2 by 20 meters, extending from Key Largo in the north to Key West, 160 km to the south.

«Marine species are under threat from human impacts, but knowledge of their vulnerabilities is limited,» says study co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland.

Recent dives into Colombia's Cartagena Bay have revealed an unusually resilient coral reef thriving in the polluted waters.

Now chemists in Britain and the US have made the powerful antifungal agent papuamine, a rare molecule that was previously found only in sponges that grow on a coral reef near South Lion Island off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Scientists have long been intrigued by the marine biodiversity peak located around Indonesia and the Philippines, in the so - called Coral Triangle, which hosts approximately three thousand coral reef fish species, i.e. ten times more than in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic at the same latitude and in similar habitats.

This replacement might keep the species count the same, but not necessarily provide the fisheries, tourism («algae diving» doesn't have quite the same appeal as «reef diving») or coastal protections that the original coral reef did.

The northwest of Madagascar in particular is a global marine biodiversity hotspot, exhibiting some of the highest diversity of coral reef ecosystems in the world.

Located in front of the Viva Dominicus Beach Resort in Bayahibe, the artifacts in the Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological preserve sit at a depth of about 26 feet near a coral reef.

A coral reef has more in common with a forest than you might think.

Coral reef structural complexity provides important coastal protection from waves under rising sea levels.

«CITES is going to be a dialogue between nations that want to protect their sharks and the financial interests that want to see maximum yield and maximum sustainable yield,» says Rick MacPherson, the conservation programs director at the Coral Reef Alliance.

Since 2005 their organization, the Institute For Figuring, has spearheaded the creation of a crochet coral reef.

[Douglas B. Rasher, Andrew S. Hoey and Mark E. Hay, Cascading predator effects in a Fijian coral reef system.]

Many researchers wonder if deeper reef areas, sometimes known as the «coral reef twilight zone,» might act as refuges for shallow - water organisms.

The idea originated from an installation for the annual Burning Man festival held in the Black Rock desert in Nevada, for which the team wanted to create an above - ground coral reef effect at night.

That change would be largely due to the decrease in coral reef complexity rather than rising sea levels, the simulations suggest.

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages.

Where these outflows are the most voluminous, coral reef has largely been overtaken by green algae, which has destroyed habitat for an untold number of marine species.

And the prognosis is grim: Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, all these reefs «will cease to host functioning coral reef ecosystems by the end of the century,» predicts the report from UNESCO's World Heritage Center in Paris.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

But the draft decision on the coral reef report «is very disappointing,» says Jon Day, a report contributing author and a resource manager formerly with Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

«Representation,» for example, is one large - scale strategy, focused on preserving representative areas of every identifiable ecosystem, such as savannah, tropical moist forest, tundra, desert, coral reef.

He created a series of images of the creatures and plants that grow, slither, flit or fly through a single cubic foot of space — from a cloud forest in Costa Rica to a coral reef in French Polynesia.

As an undergraduate at New College of Florida, I pursued research in coral reef biology.

Using DNA profiling, Garry Russ and colleagues at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in Queensland, Australia, have shown that devoting less than a third of an area to a marine reserve network doubled the number of juvenile fish in the rest of the area (Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cub.2012.04.008).

Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.

Instead, she and two other Wooster students spent 10 days collecting 125,000 - year - old pieces of coral reef and rhodoliths.

In a coral reef, as in a forest, there are rules that describe how densely or sparsely different species like to grow, how much they like being next to each other, and they often get ecological opportunities by living close to one another.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

Take a night - time dive over a coral reef in the Philippines and you may well see a nautilus or two.

«In 1971 we built the first sea wall... from coral reef rocks and rocks from the hill.

Liittschwager built a small mobile photo studio that was sturdy enough to travel from New York City's Central Park to the shrubland of South Africa's Mountain Fynbos, from Costa Rica's cloud forest to the Polynesian coral reef and beyond.

As part of the research, published in the journal Nature, researchers from Australia, the United Kingdom and France examined nearly 20 years of coral reef data gathered from the Seychelles.

Coral bleaching has affected virtually the entire Great Barrier Reef and many other coral reef systems globally, a result of the continuing rise in global temperatures and exacerbated by the summer's major El Niño event.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University asked nearly 700 recreational fishers at boat ramps in Townsville about their perceptions of poaching (i.e. fishing in no - take zones).

Confirmation arrived in February this year, when an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from three sites on the seabed, revealing a fossilised coral reef that reaches 110 metres into the sea floor.

How do you explain the energetics of a coral reef in a way that would make sense to a 10 - year - old... and his grandma?

The ratio of strontium to calcium in a given layer of coral reef — as well as the amount of a heavier isotope of oxygen in the carbonate itself — reflect the temperature in this historical record, but the isotopic information also reveals rainfall.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

Dive into the ocean with these coral reef coloring pages for adults.

After a year away — part of it spent doing research with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Kenya and Madagascar — he is now back at JCU, where the Australian Research Council funds a center for coral reef studies.

A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), sheds light on the ways SGD affects coral reef growth.

ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies.

In one village in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, fishing a particular section of the coral reef is forbidden for all but a few days of the year.