Sentences with phrase «on coral communities»

The changes in sea level can have a dramatic impact locally on coral communities, but it's how those warmer, higher waters affect the atmosphere that really matters globally.

Working out just how they do this will be important in understanding the likely impacts of ocean acidification on coral communities elsewhere, he says.

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Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light on how it changed a coral's community of algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur more frequently in the future.

These virtual communities drive ISIS activity on a Facebook - like site called VKontakte, say physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., and colleagues.

THOSE trying to save corals from extinction have missed a trick by not focusing on the creative fringe communities, where the animals are evolving faster.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

The joint results from this study on the metabolism of cold - water coral reef communities are published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.

«The widespread impacts of heat stress on corals have been the subject of much discussion both within and outside the research community.

They lie on the edge of the largely tropical band in which coral communities are viable, and reef diversity here is relatively low, leaving the ecosystem vulnerable.

In contrast to reefs across the globe, which have suffered severe and continuing damage due to the combined effects of climate change and local disturbances, the researchers found that the coral communities on most of the reefs they looked at had recovered rapidly from this major «bleaching» event.

«The coral die - off has caused radical changes in the mix of coral species on hundreds of individual reefs, where mature and diverse reef communities are being transformed into more degraded systems, with just a few tough species remaining,» said co-author Prof Andrew Baird of Coral CoE at James Cook Univercoral die - off has caused radical changes in the mix of coral species on hundreds of individual reefs, where mature and diverse reef communities are being transformed into more degraded systems, with just a few tough species remaining,» said co-author Prof Andrew Baird of Coral CoE at James Cook Univercoral species on hundreds of individual reefs, where mature and diverse reef communities are being transformed into more degraded systems, with just a few tough species remaining,» said co-author Prof Andrew Baird of Coral CoE at James Cook UniverCoral CoE at James Cook University.

For coral reefs, the most concerning implication of ocean acidification is its effects on coral growth, coralline algae and rates of chemical erosion of reef substrate, which can have significant impacts on the dependent fish communities.

Scientists are discovering that the ecological impacts of coral decline can have detrimental effects on fish communities.

Hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, the symposium will feature talks by more than 30 eminent coral reef and fish scientists on the future of these vital marine ecosystems and the industries and communities which depend on Coral Reef Studies, the symposium will feature talks by more than 30 eminent coral reef and fish scientists on the future of these vital marine ecosystems and the industries and communities which depend on coral reef and fish scientists on the future of these vital marine ecosystems and the industries and communities which depend on them.

Changes in coral communities also affect the species that depend on them, such as the fish and invertebrates that rely on live coral for food, shelter, or recruitment habitat.

Degraded coral reefs are less able to provide the ecosystem services on which local human communities depend.

Degradation of coral reefs also greatly affects human communities that rely on them.

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Realizing the importance of the coral reef community off Ambergris caye, Belize, the Belize government established the Hol Chan Marine Reserve on May 2, 1987.

During his undergraduate career, he worked with various faculty members on several projects including mapping coral community decline, creating 3D maps of stromatolites, and modeling Manta Ray behavior off the mid-Atlantic coast.

Tom highlighted the traditional top down approach with NGOs pushing their agenda on communities resulting in formation of marine protected area (MPA) and police state imposition do not tackle the root cause of coral reef degradation.

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«Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS is a community - centered project that builds on the feminist tradition of using craft in the service of activism.

Wertheim: Right now I'm doing a lot of crocheting and producing a book with my sister about the Crocheted Coral Reef, a global / community science / craft project we have been working on for nine years.

Then as our community moves progressively forward, we can all still be relieved to know that Miami is still on its way to transcending its past as just another dumbed down tourist destination — promoting that less thoughtful decaying visual aroma that we still get a whiff of now and then... that kind of old Miami putrid commercialized smell that turned so many despondent and sour and caused the international arts communities to view Miami's indifference to an international discourse as but a memory, constantly recuperating the South Florida pastiche... a past that if you need reminding of you need only take a trip to Key West to know what kind of image Miami is still fighting against — the land built on coral and swamp, but filled with cheap and shallow tawdriness, like acid in your contemporary, progressive face, eyes of mundane kitschy campiness saddening and maddening, dumbed down affection that solicits and sells itself to another kind of cultural neanderthal — the accidental drunken tourist who seeks passive mediocrity and the same in other kindred spirits -LSB-.]

«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration projCoral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration projCoral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration projcoral reef restoration project).

That doesn't mean that there has been no impact on those deep - water coral or seep communities.

Even though coral reef communities may not be connected directly to one another, reefs on the edge of the Coral Triangle have the potential to contribute significant amounts of genetic diversity throughout the region.&rcoral reef communities may not be connected directly to one another, reefs on the edge of the Coral Triangle have the potential to contribute significant amounts of genetic diversity throughout the region.&rCoral Triangle have the potential to contribute significant amounts of genetic diversity throughout the region.»

Coral reef loss, due to the same factors as in the Caribbean, is a major worldwide problem — with dire consequences on the communities dependent on them.

Once the dominant reef builder of the Caribbean Sea, elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) can be found as far north as Florida and as far south as Venezuela.2 It typically lives on the side of the reef facing the open ocean, thereby taking the brunt of waves kicked up during storms and protecting communities on the nearby shoreline.

In this study, the abilities of three variations of a thermal threshold index and a multivariate stress model (MSM) were used to predict coral cover and community susceptibility to bleaching based on a compilation of field data from Indian Ocean reefs across the strong thermal anomaly of 1998.

The coral community on the outer reef in South Tarawa is different from that at the other outer reef sites studied; South Tarawa is dominated by the weedy encrusting species Porites rus, while at the other sites the coral community is dominated by massive Porites spp., Heliopora spp., Montipora spp. and Favia spp. [47].

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

Although bleaching can result in coral death due to starvation when new symbionts are not acquired quickly enough, surviving polyps with their altered symbiont community have the potential to re-direct the reef on a trajectory that is better suited to the new environment.

«If we don't take action on this issue very rapidly, coral reefs — and everything that depends on them, including both wildlife and local communities — will not survive into the next century.»

Washington, DC — A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Rebecca Albright and Ken Caldeira performed the first - ever experiment that manipulated seawater chemistry in a natural coral reef community in order to determine the effect that excess carbon dioxide released by human activity is having on coral reefs.

«Ocean acidification is already taking its toll on coral reef communities.

On Jan. 28, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's ice hockey team beat Boca Raton Community High School by a score of 5 - 4 at the Panthers Ice Den in Coral Springs.

On Monday, Jan. 22 the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's men's ice hockey team tied with Boca Raton Community High School with a score of 4 - 4 at the Panthers Ice Den in Coral Springs.

Following the school shooting on Feb. 14, South Florida communities have showered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the rest of Parkland and Coral Springs with love and support through fundraisers, letters and banners.

The «Day of Healing,» an event held to reconnect students with first responders from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Feb. 14, took place at North Community Park in Coral Springs on Sunday, March 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m..

At a community town hall on Tuesday night in Coral Springs, about three miles from the school, Hogg was one of the questioners, and he wasn't critical of Deutch.

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