Sentences with phrase «reef sites studied»
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].
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During the cruise, Droxler, study lead author and Rice graduate student Pankaj Khanna and Harte Research Institute colleagues John Tunnell Jr. and Thomas Shirley used the Falkor's multibeam echo sounder to map 10 fossil reef sites offshore Texas.
All the sites in the study had reefs with terraces.
To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.
In a study published in 2013, Palumbi and his colleagues, including Daniel Barshis, a marine biologist at Stanford, compared two populations of the reef - building coral Acropora hyacinthus at their field site off Ofu Island in American Samoa.
The study found cooler sea temperatures, greater precipitation and stronger upwelling — all indicators of La Niña - like conditions at the study site in Panama — during a period when coral reef accretion stopped in this region around 4,100 years ago.
As part of the study, the researchers conducted extensive surveys of fish and their habitats at multiple sites across the Great Barrier Reef.
And she said some of her graduate students will conduct studies with her at the Moorea Coral Reef Long - term Ecological Research site in French Polynesia.
She hopes to develop an undergraduate course in coral reef studies that will include travel to one of her field sites in the Caribbean.
Over the past five years AIMS researchers have been studying the area, which is the only known CO2 seep site in coral reef ecosystems in the world.
Dr Hugo Harrison from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies spent the past month with colleagues surveying coral bleaching at 21 sites across seven reefs in the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve.
«My research site is in the very middle of the Pacific Ocean,» says Cobb, a Georgia Institute of Technology climate scientist who studies the effects of specific El Niño and La Niña climate patterns on coral reefs.
A study of 322 sites across 13 Caribbean countries found that coral reefs have suffered significant damage from over-fishing and run - off from agricultural land.