Sentences with word «elkhorn»

At sites like Windsock and Karpata, groves of elkhorn coral grow close to shore and rise almost to the surface.

Large plates of boulder coral, heads of brain, yellow pencil, mustard hill and isolated stands of elkhorn coral form the ridges.

So the reason why for so many years we've never witnessed spawning pillar corals is that, while they were spawning, virtually all coral spawning researchers and photographers in the Caribbean were on their boats doing final preparations on their dive gear for elkhorn coral spawning.

An international team of researchers recently bred elkhorn corals (Acropora palamata) in a laboratory setting, to be used to repopulate critically endangered Caribbean reefs.

On the sightseeing and snorkeling tour you will enjoy beautiful sights of spectacular corals, such as elkhorn coral, sheet coral, grooved brain coral, finger corals and many more.

One - year - old colonies of endangered elkhorn coral grown in an aquarium were cemented to boulders along the Curacao coast in August, 2012.

In 1996, researchers discovered irregularly shaped white lesions on elkhorn corals off Key West, Florida, that were killing the thin layer of living tissue that sheaths the limestone skeleton of coral colonies.

Porter's team then exposed healthy elkhorn corals in waters in the Bahamas to each strain.

The scientists placed elkhorn coral in the water.

She wanted to know how elkhorn coral would reproduce in acidic water.

It has two types of reefs, a shallow reef that extends to 30 ft and a very wide, deep reef beginning at 40 ft and extending to 80 ft.. The shallow reef features mature elkhorn and huge masses of lettuce coral that look like loaves of bread densely covered with a growth of lettuce leaves.

Swim through crystal waters teeming with fish such as angelfish and sergeant majors, and drift over coral reefs dotted with delicate elkhorn and fan corals.

The Goulding Cay Reefs, located just off New Providence island, are teaming with tons of tropical colored fish and picturesque elkhorn coral.

At Tres Cocos, on the same tour, rich orange elkhorn corals vibrate with coral polyps building their colonies.

Different species of coral are distinguished by the color and shape of these calcium carbonite deposits called corallites, including elkhorn, large star, finger, brain and plate coral.

The fan shaped reef covers 593 hectares and has 35 different species including the giant elkhorn.

Massive elkhorn coral formations make stunning back drops.

There are currently no prohibitions relating to individual conduct, except for those related to the two previously listed elkhorn and staghorn corals in the Caribbean.

Increased ocean acidification poses risks to the very initial stages of life of the already threatened elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), a key reef builder in the Caribbean Sea that provides critical habitat for other reef organisms.

Our ongoing coral work began with defending elkhorn and staghorn corals, for which we earned federal protection in 2006.

Physorg reports «This simple restoration process requires very little training, meaning that moving and reattaching elkhorn coral fragments can be done by recreational divers and could be woven into public educational activities and adopted by volunteer groups.»

Colonies of these polyps create the structure of the coral reef that is growing in exotic and strange shapes that give the different kinds their popular names, like elkhorn coral, staghorn coral and brain coral, among many others.

The slow - moving creature would have been a prime target for predators if not for the large, treelike branches of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) it was sheltering under.

An international team of researchers recently bred elkhorn corals (Acropora palamata) in a laboratory setting, to be used to repopulate critically endangered Caribbean reefs.

Our first dive of the day happened in Melissas Garden, one of the archipelagos most extensive hard coral garden, formed of species such as elkhorn, staghorn, elephant ear, and others.

The film will also describe a coral propagation effort pursued by the Secore Foundation, Carmabi Foundation and Curaçao Sea Aquarium — in particular the work of Valérie F. Chamberland, a biologist who has spent nearly five years cultivating extremely endangered elkhorn coral in tanks and cementing them on boulders just offshore.

In the last 30 years, many populations of elkhorn coral have collapsed, thanks to disease outbreaks, hurricanes and elevated temperatures.

Gaudy parrotfish nibble at the elkhorns.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

Since the 1970s it has swept through the Caribbean's staghorn and elkhorn corals.

Like all living museums in the sea, the Kidd shipwreck protects biological resources — most notably, relatively large populations of elkhorn and staghorn coral — as well as archaeological resources.

Using $ 3 million in federal money, they plan to strategically plant 5,000 to 10,000 nursery - grown elkhorn corals up and down the Florida coast, each between the size of a hand and that of a soccer ball.

Tucked between rocks and long - dead coral husks is a neat little grid of coffee - colored A. palmata, or elkhorn coral — a once - dominant species whose population plummeted in 30 years by 80 percent — growing in a bathroom - size square made of PVC tubing.

Lead author and TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver from the CARMABI Foundation on the Caribbean island of Curaçao said: «Strangely enough, pillar corals happen to spawn just half an hour before another threatened coral that is far better studied — the elkhorn corals.

Firstly, in the late 1970s, a condition called white - band disease swept through the reefs, killing 90 per cent of the most spectacular tree - like elkhorn and staghorn corals.

It specifically targets the species Acropora palmata, or elkhorn coral, and some Florida reefs have lost as much as 85 percent of their A. palmata.

Here, in the Bocas Del Toro archipelago, he was seeing a variety of big fish among the elkhorns.

At the eight coral nurseries located around Belize's Laughing Bird Caye National Park, staghorn and elkhorn corals are placed on metal, framed tables, which provide a supportive surface for the two species» artificial growths: cement discs (called cookies) that contain fragments of flowery elkhorn coral, and ropes that are seeded with the spindly staghorn corals.

Once the staghorn and elkhorn corals are grown and harvested in the nurseries, they are then taken to the outer reefs to be transplanted.

Carne and her research team collected broken pieces of elkhorn and staghorn corals — critically endangered and nearly 98 percent wiped out — from the healthy reefs and moved them to eight coral nurseries.

The cement cookies allow slower - growing elkhorns to be cultivated in the nurseries.

The bottom line remains the same: More carbon dioxide means more acidification, which probably means bad news for the elkhorn coral.

Like other animals, elkhorn coral reproduces sexually, which means a sperm cell and egg cell come together to create a new organism.

As acidification worsens, these elkhorn coral may produce fewer offspring.

A new study suggests that coral may face yet another threat: In more acidic waters, elkhorn coral are less successful at reproducing sexually.

As oceans become more acidic, the elkhorn coral may face increasing problems producing offspring.

It's possible that elkhorn coral could evolve and adapt to the changing climate.

This process is called «acidification,» and it may mean bad news for animals like the elkhorn coral, which is found throughout the Caribbean Sea.