Sentences with phrase «staghorn coral»

We planted only finger coral, but the team works with staghorn coral as well.

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.

The highlight of the dive was a large bed (and I'm talking tens of metres long and wide) of fine staghorn coral in which were nestled what appeared to be a whole family of turtles.

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

Magnificent stands of elkhorn, meandrine brain, large cactus, thin fungus and staghorn coral form crowded coral stands.

Carden Wallace, who studies staghorn corals at the Museum of Tropical Queensland in Townsville, Australia, is «saddened» by the news, but she is happy that research is done to understand the demise of the famous Caribbean staghorn reefs.

This is a healthy staghorn coral.

On a sandy seabed near the lab, he has started an unusual nursery where staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) grow suspended from stands that resemble artificial Christmas trees.

In a series of Instagram photos and videos, Gaskell shared that he and his team took a freediving trip inside the hole where they found «huge Birdsnest Corals (Seriatopora) and super elongated Staghorn Corals (Acropora) both of which were among the biggest and most delicate colonies I've ever seen.»

Information cards guide the snorkeller through gardens of lettuce, cauliflower, boulder and staghorn corals teeming with colourful clownfish and giant clams.

Often Jacks & sharks are visitor while clown triggerfish, giant sponge & staghorn coral cover the site.

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.

IN HOT WATER Staghorn coral (Acropora millepora) may be able to last 100 - to 250 years thanks to its ability to adapt to warming waters.

They took staghorn coral and subjected it to different water temperatures in the lab while recording how much DMS was released.

Professor Miller says the findings are particularly significant as they centred on staghorn coral.

Staghorn corals live throughout the Great Barrier Reef, though waters in the northern portion can be more than 5 degrees Celsius warmer than in the south.

Staghorn corals proved to be particularly vulnerable to those marine heat waves.

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.

And several marine biologists, including Hoegh - Guldberg, have suggested extending the range of heat - tolerating staghorn corals — and the algae they host — to replace their less tolerant brethren in formerly colder waters.

Researchers have banked hundreds of genotyped strains from a handful of coral species, including the critically endangered staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) from locations in the Caribbean, says Les Kaufman, a marine biologist at Boston University in Massachusetts.

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.

A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are benefiting from «coral gardening,» the process of restoring coral populations by planting laboratory - raised coral fragments on reefs.

Staghorn coral populations have declined as much as 90 % in the Caribbean since the 1980s.

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.

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

At the eight coral nurseries located around Belize's Laughing Bird Caye National Park, staghorn and elkhorn corals are placed on metal, framed tables, which provide a supportive surface for the two species» artificial growths: cement discs (called cookies) that contain fragments of flowery elkhorn coral, and ropes that are seeded with the spindly staghorn corals.

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.

Elkhorn and staghorn corals peer over the top of the barrel and tube sponges which adorn the wall.

At depths of 15 - 18m the divers discovered pristine colonies of giant birdsnest and unusually long Staghorn corals.

Colourful sponges intertwined with staghorn corals create a backdrop for spotted eagle rays to fly by.

It is an area of big coral bommies and almost «meadows» of low lying staghorn coral.

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

The branches of elkhorn and related staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) provide critical habitat for other reef organisms in the Caribbean Sea.7

«The Keys have not seen a cold - water bleaching event like this since the winter of 1977 - 78, when acres of staghorn coral perished,» said Dr. Billy Causey, southeast regional director of NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

White band disease, a bacterial infection, had killed off the dominant staghorn coral.

Staghorn corals killed by bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef.Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colourful 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.

In the early 1980s, staghorn corals in the Caribbean suddenly died off massively — and never recovered.

In the shallower part of the reef, staghorn corals form a safe haven for reef fish and turtles.

Good variety of hard and soft corals, various types of gorgonians, healthy staghorn corals, huge coral boomies and table corals at White Sand Beach, Tanjung Sari and Blue Lagoon dive sites.

Another rock pinnacle where Staghorn corals and an abundance of smaller reef fish are the main attractions.

At around 15m - 20m deep there was huge Birdsnest Corals (Seriatopora) and super elongated Staghorn Corals (Acropora) both of which were among the biggest and most delicate colonies I've ever seen.

Information cards guide the snorkeller through gardens of lettuce, cauliflower, boulder and staghorn corals teeming with colourful clownfish and a few giant clams.

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

We went to the sloping area covered with staghorn corals and table corals.

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

«Staghorn corals are the key reef - building corals throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans.

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.