Sentences with phrase «of staghorn»

A partnership of US and Australian scientists reports in the Public Library of Science journal PLOS Genetics that computer simulation models and genetic evidence of variation from one species of staghorn coral, called Acropora millepora, together show that the coral could in theory adapt over a stretch of 20 to 50 generations.

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Bommies rise up from gullies and a landscape of staghorn - covered peaks and sandy valleys.

Schools of butterfly fish and angel fish predominate and colonies of staghorn corals attract breams and damsels to make their homes here.

Staghorn Crest - At this dive site, you will find yourself beginning with a gentle descent along the drop - off, followed by a gradual diagonal descent along the wall, at the shallow end of which there is a garden of staghorn corals.

Instead, it posesses a tableau of hard coral formations of staghorn corals, plate corals, table corals, mushroom corals and brain corals.

The reef - flat features many small boulders of lesser star and brain corals, interspersed with clusters of staghorn corals, all covered in colourful reef - fish like chromis, wrasse, parrotfish and surgeonfish.

Diving in the Coral Sea as part of a liveaboard cruise will normally include the beautiful sites of Milln Reef and Flynn Reef, where there are stunning coral gardens sporting the full range of staghorn, table, boulder and plate coral.

The Maori Wrasse Bommie dive site is in the north western corner of the reef, and includes broken sandy bottom with small bommies and boulders, plus a large extent of staghorn coral which seems to be a favourite haunt of the turtles.

With a gentle northern current all groups could fully enjoy what the site has to offer, especially the amazing concentration of smaller reef fish of all sorts of colors hovering on top of staghorn, elkhorn and other species of coral.

BreakFree Beachpoint is located opposite the beach and the Staghorn Avenue lifeguard tower, on the corner of Staghorn Avenue and The Esplanade (three blocks north of Cavill Avenue).

Koh Torinla - On the east coast of Koh Torinla, a large coral plateau of staghorn corals and massive porites corals breaks the water's surface at low tide.

You will cruise over fields of staghorn coral, looking out for black tip sharks and leopard sharks as well as hunting trevallies enjoying the rich supply of baitfish.

This island of the north coast of Koh Rang provides a gently sloping reef upon which gardens of staghorn coral and the usual wide variety of lively reef fish are seen.

On the southside of the island there is the biggest formation of staghorn coral you re likely to see, forming a stunning view and protection to an abundance of fish.

Shallower sites in this region feature groves of staghorn, elkhorn and brain corals, covered in schools of blue tangs, wrasse, grunts, and snappers, and harboring queen angelfish, parrotfish and spotted trunkfish.

In open areas, tilefish float like ghostly apparitions, guarding the entrance to their hilly burrows piled high with broken pieces of staghorn coral.

A favorite destination is Laughing Bird Caye National Park, which supports large stands of staghorn and elkhorn corals, along with thick growths of tunicates and anemones.

The reef itself is mainly hard coral of the staghorn and table variety.

At Bida Nai the amazing topography includes walls, large boulders, crevices and fields of staghorn coral.

Pockets of staghorn and mounds of coral attract a solid cast of regulars.

Pockets of staghorn and mounds or coral attract a solid cast of regulars as well as some other interesting species that make spontaneous appearances.

This is a paradise of staghorn coral, sea fans and sponges carpeted by a colorful display of marine life.

This area offers many of Turneffe's best wall dives, and there are also numerous shallow to mid-depth sites that showcase intricate formations of staghorn, elkhorn, brain and lettuce leaf corals.

A fantastic coral dive with vast beds of staghorn and other varieties, and dotted with colourful giant clams.

Extensive thickets of staghorn corals at Carysfort Reef, approximately 6 nautical miles east of Key Largo, Fla., are gone today and replaced by a structure-less bottom littered with the decaying skeletons of staghorn coral.

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Cameo continues to expand its project portfolio with undervalued battery metal assets with recent acquisitions such as the Staghorn Cobalt claims located north of the famed Voisey's Bay mine in Labrador.

Staghorn and tabular corals suffered mass die - offs, robbing many individual reefs of their characteristic shapes.

So, I'm also thinking of sumac - ade or whatever you want to call it (made from staghorn sumacs).

Picnic tables near the shade of large staghorn sumacs are great for snack time and watching the fun unfold.

Here, a healthy staghorn grows off Magnetic Island in the central part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Hung on a tree structure, the staghorn coral shown here will have a better chance of surviving and being transplanted back onto a reef.

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.

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.

While the marine heat wave particularly damaged staghorn corals (Acropora millepora), this species may ultimately prove to be one of the resilient ones, Mikhail Matz, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues report in PLOS Genetics.

To help solve this conundrum, a team led by Richard Aronson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama decided to sample ancient staghorn coral rubble that was deposited over the past centuries.

The vast staghorn coral forests of Jamaica were a favorite playground for the first scuba - diving reef ecologists in the 1960s and»70s.

Staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are propagated within underwater coral nurseries to create a sustainable source of corals for use in coral restoration activities (inset).

Grottoli's team tested two species of coral that are extremely common around the world, Acropora millepora, or staghorn coral, and Turbinaria reniformis, or yellow scroll coral.

Yellow scroll coral is much more hardy than staghorn coral when it comes to retaining its algae — that is, not bleaching — in the face of rising temperatures.

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.

The more temperature - senstive staghorn coral had a weaker microbiome, bleached in response to stress, and showed signs of overall health decline.

But the staghorn coral was not so lucky — it experienced a decline in microbial diversity and increases in populations of Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas bacteria, both of which are familiar human pathogens.

In areas where the soil was a few degrees cooler, at 68 °C, Smale's team found geothermal kanuka, an endemic shrub, and staghorn clubmoss, which is widespread in tropical climates (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, doi.org/b8fc).

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 ropes are more straightforward: The faster - growing staghorn corals are broken into pieces, and then threaded through strands of braided fiber ropes, which are then strung across the metal frames.

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In Explosion Reef, experience the staghorn coral, the «nursery» of this dive site that explodes with the dazzling colors of juvenile fish and marine life.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.