Sentences with phrase «of branching coral»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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

Not exact matches

Researchers knew that the small Mediterranean nudibranch Cratena peregrina, with a colorful mane of streamers rippling off its body, climbs and preys on pipe cleaner skinny, branched colonies of Eudendrium racemosum hydroids, which are distant relatives of corals.

Elkhorn coral, called the «redwood of the coral forest,» is renowned for its massive, branching structure, which provides food and shelter for hundreds of reef species.

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.»

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.

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 species is one of very few corals in the Caribbean that forms large branches, which can provide shelter for important fish species and reduce the energy of storm surge as it approaches shore.

On swaths of coastline where fishing is restricted, corals such as the tall and branching Acropora millepora rule, says study co-author Mark Hay, a marine ecologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

The action of damselfish swimming between coral branches helps the algae inside corals to increase their photosynthesis

«The resulting growth potential for many of the reefs appears to be good, particularly on the reefs dominated by branching and table corals.

The delicate branches of Acropora corals are easily broken off by strong waves.

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

The traits of the coral — its branch structure and size — are what enabled the fish to thrive.

Nur Garcia - Herrera at the Alfred - Wegener Institute in Germany and colleagues measured oxygen levels inside the branches of coral kept in tanks either with or without fish.

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

Increasing storm impacts are also likely to cause fragile branching species (responsible for most structural complexity on reefs) to decline more rapidly than the proportion of massive corals, resulting in low structural complexity on impacted reefs.

ref Hurricanes can also reduce the abundance of coral colonies more susceptible to thermal stress, e.g., branching and tabular colonies which can dominate reefs that rarely experience storms, thus reducing the potential for future storms to cause further damage.

«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».

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

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

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The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, [its] base of branches dead; so that passages can not be seen.

Fan coral branches tossed against a linear, watery background bring the beauty of an underwater garden to your bedroom.

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The corals hide a variety of shrimps, crabs and of course nudi branchs.

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For example, squirrel - fish can be found hiding in coral branches or coves, sandtile fish can be found living in burrows in the sand of the sea floor, houndfish and barracudas can be found swimming near the surface of the water, large groupers can be found hiding in overhangs or caves, and moray eels can be found hiding in holes and crevices within the corals.

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In addition to, or sometimes in the place of spicules, the soft corals can have a central axis in each branch composed of a horny (gorgonan) substance to give the colony enough strength to grow upright oft the sea floor and still preserve its flexibility.

It offers many popular dive sites with a great diversity of underwater seascapes and marine flora and fauna including branching, table and plate corals, beautiful overhangs, drop - offs and mushroom rocks, perfect for spectacular night dives.

Hidden in between the coral branches you will also find a spectrum of beautiful reef fish.

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.

Shadowy branches of black coral waved from the overarching wall, interspersed by the reaching rubbery fingers of various gorgonians.

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.

Level: beginner to experienced diver Type of dive: off shore dive 3 minutes from the beach, pinnacle, walls and slopes What to see: lion and scorpion fish, nudi branchs, butterfly and angel fish, emperor and trigger fish, morish idols, white tip shark, blue spotted sting ray, eels, soft coral, gorgonian and whip coral.

Here there are dramatic limestone walls decorated with healthy soft corals, gorgonians branching out from the many colourful walls, and dives ending in shallow coral gardens where all manner of marine life frolic among the soft corals and sponges.

Watch tiny tropical fish with blue neon spots dart between the branches of coral colonies.

The amount of fish, hard / soft coral, eels, crabs, lobsters, cuttle fish, octopus, nuddy branches, jellies, starfish, etc...

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

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Hard corals on a Biorock ® structure can grow 2 - 6 times faster than in natural conditions, the corals on the Biorock ® reef are exceptionally bright colored and densely branched, heal from physical damage at least 20 times faster, have up to 50 times higher survival rate from the most severe high temperature bleaching events, and show rates of new coral growth higher than any previously recorded data.

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To determine their effect on individual corals, the scientists exposed small branch clippings, otherwise known as «nubbins,» of two species — Stylophora pistillata and Pocillopora damicornis, both found in the Red Sea — to solutions of 6 different dispersants for a period of 24 hours and monitored their health for the ensuing week.