Sentences with phrase «for other coral»

The increasingly bleached coral at Black Point on the Cobourg Peninsula is a worrying sign of what's to come for other coral reefs in Australia.

This and Nedimyer's coral farms could help Florida's unique marine ecosystems adapt more quickly to human - created threats, setting an example for other coral - reef restoration projects around the planet.

The new technique could be used for other coral species and diseases, she says.

Not exact matches

Coral that has died is gone for good, which affects other creatures that rely on it for food and shelter.

Other reefs have suffered even more severely from the recent bleaching; Some Pacific islands, for example, have reported over 80 percent coral death rates, Eakin said.

Many reefs have gotten so degraded that even corals that are still alive can't sexually reproduce, since healthy patches are too far apart for eggs and sperm to find each other.

For that reason, most of the corals Hall and others moved inside survived.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Julia Salomone, 18, and sister Lindsey, 15, celebrate with other students as their bus leaves Coral Springs bound for Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to demand stronger gun control.

Among the delights of a getaway to the Viceroy Riviera Maya are refined Mexican cuisine accented with international influences at La Marea, Mexican - Mediterranean dishes cooked on wood - burning grills at the seaside Coral Grill, a palm - ringed lagoon pool, fitness center, day beds at the beach, and a pier where guests enjoy massages, romantic dinners and are conveniently picked up by boat for snorkeling, diving and other excursions.

This is especially crucial if you're solo because it prevents you from having to unload any other babes, drag everyone into an establishment, coral them in a public bathroom and then do the car seat tango for the millionth time.

Coral reefs act as habitats for fish and other wildlife, providing food for communities worldwide and generating tourism dollars for seaside economies.

Cinner wants to extend this work to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, looking for other ways to help people and coral reefs survive climate change.

What sounds like an apocalyptic vision of the future for the world's tropical corals is in fact a chilling assessment of the current state of reefs built in cooler waters by oysters and other bivalve shellfish.

That spells bad news for the speedy breakdown of oil as well as for coral and other sessile deepwater life.

Large artifacts, such as cannons and anchors, provide hard substrate and rugosity that create an ideal habitat for corals, fish and other biota.

WCS has been working in the northwest of Madagascar for over 10 years to create marine protected areas to protect marine turtles and other important marine ecosystems and species including coral reefs, seagrasses, dugongs and sharks and rays.

Studies on coral, mollusks, and other ocean denizens are helping to paint a picture of what the future might entail for specific species, should carbon emissions continue to increase.

As corals grow, they construct the complex calcium carbonate framework that provides habitat for fish and other reef organisms.

In addition to Marcelino, Backman and Swain, other authors of the paper are Jesse B. Vega - Perkins, William K. Oestreich, Conrad Triebold, Emily DuBois and Margaret Siple, of Northwestern; Jillian Henss, of the Field Museum; and Andrew Baird, of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia.

Seagrass beds, like coral reefs, form a highly productive and diverse ecosystem, acting as the nursery for many kinds of fish as well as a home to sea turtles, manatees, birds, and a host of other sea creatures.

The table corals and the staghorn corals — which provide the nooks and crannies for fish and other creatures — are more susceptible.

When it died, it sank to the bottom of the sea floor with its skeleton falling apart and becoming a hub for coral and other organisms to grow on.

«You can imagine that [algae and corals] have evolved over the years different mechanisms for battling each other and fighting these turf wars,» Smith says.

«Corals are creating a habitat for other species, and reefs are critical to fisheries.»

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Understanding how fish feeding behavior responds to algal blooms, overfishing, and other disturbances is important for coral reef conservation and requires further study, Gil said.

Groupers and other fish often spawn together in coral reefs at depths between 30 and 150 meters in the Caribbean, and these aggregations may make them easy pickings for predators.

«Deep - sea corals and sponges provide valuable refuge for fish and other marine life,» said Maria Brown, Farallones sanctuary superintendent.

Coral reefs, kelp forests and other marine ecosystems may be tougher than we give them credit for, a new study suggests.

Researchers believe that chemical shift will pose a major problem for shellfish, corals and other marine life that grow hard shells made of a chalky mineral called calcium carbonate.

The PhyloChip, which was developed by Andersen and several other Berkeley Lab scientists, has been used for a number of medical, agricultural, and environmental purposes, including understanding air pollution, the ecology of coral reefs, and environmental conditions of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.

As greenhouse gas pollution reshapes the invisible mosaic of seawater chemicals washing over Australia's Great Barrier Reef, corals there are being locked in escalating conflicts with each other for survival.

For corals and other calcifiers like sea urchins and shellfish, reductions in calcification may:

Workshop report: Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers, A Guide for Further Research (pdf, 8.9 M)

Study co-author, James Cook University Professor Sean Connoly, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rCoral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rCoral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rcoral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other reefs.

Acidification shifts the equilibrium of carbonate chemistry in seawater, reducing pH and the concentration of carbonate ions available for corals and other marine calcifiers to use to build their skeletons.

Reefs also protect shorelines from damaging storm waters and prevent erosion; they are the rainforests of the sea that provide a home for one million species; and they are «the medicine cabinets of the 21st century» according to NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, providing new sources of medicine to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease, arthritis and other diseases.

This in turn has implications for humans, who rely on the rich and beautiful coral reefs of today for food, tourism and other livelihoods.

While symbiotic relationships in coral reefs have been known for some time, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 has spurred an interest in symbiotic relationships, and led to their recognition in many other types of habitats, such as mangrove swamps, mud flats, and sewage outlets.

Developed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging at the University of California San Diego, the researchers used BUM to observe how coral polyps in the Red Sea feed, compete with other corals and respond to algae colonization.

Some, such as the sceptics S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, see no danger at all, maintaining that a warmer planet will be beneficial for mankind and other species on the planet and that «corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate».

When you place colonies next to each other the coral polyps will fight for territory.

That area is known as the Coral Triangle, an ecologically crucial spot for coral, fish, turtles and other sea creatCoral Triangle, an ecologically crucial spot for coral, fish, turtles and other sea creatcoral, fish, turtles and other sea creatures.

Consequences of lost coral reefs can be economically devastating for many nations, especially in combination with other impacts such as sea level rise and intensification of storms.

Corals, branching Acroporids especially, contribute greatly to habitat complexity, or rugosity, of reefs increasing the microhabitats for other reef creatures.»

To build the database, the researchers scoured academic journals, government documents and other sources for reports of coral bleaching missing from an existing voluntary database commonly used by scientists.

There's a reason we never developed cravings for chalk or coral, because these foreign replacements for the bone fide article confuses the body, leading to intestinal upset and constipation, as well as other problems.

(One is shades of blue, the other coral / pink) I don't wear those as much, but they are nice for a change.

I grew up at the beach (I'm sure you've heard me talk about this before) and decorating for this season just feels right to me (and this is when I feel the most comfortable in my home) since my coral and other fun, springy items reappear each year.

The other was a black evening gown with blue and coral paillette detailing up the sides, a cutout at the ribcage and one breast exposed for nearly her entire catwalk journey.