Sentences with phrase «water coral colonies»

From the video, Lissette and her fellow researchers from the NOC and the Universities of Bristol, Essex and Newfoundland identified over 30 000 animals living on the surface of the Annan Seamount in the Equatorial - Atlantic, including spectacular cold - water coral colonies.

Clockwise from top left i) Plastic bag recorded by an OFOS at the HAUSGARTEN observatory (Arctic) at 2500 m; ii = Litter recovered within the net of a trawl in Blanes open slope at 1500 m during the PROMETO 5 cruise on board the R / V «García del Cid»; iii) Cargo net entangled in a cold - water coral colony at 950 m in Darwin Mound with the ROV «Lynx» (National Oceanography Centre, UK).

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Areas like the North Atlantic and South Pacific are particularly fertile habitats for deep - sea scleractinian reefs, but a combination of factors led scientists to believe that the accumulation of deep - sea coral colonies into healthy reefs was exceedingly unlikely in the deep waters of the North Pacific.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

In order to better understand how corals are interacting with microbes in surrounding reef waters, the researchers set up aquaria - based experiments using colonies of the coral P. astreoides.

coral bleaching An event in which warming water or other stressors cause coral colonies to expel the algae that normally live inside them.

Hoi Ha Wan marine park is well known for it's crystal clear and calm waters, and has some of Hong Kong's largest coral colonies.

Descending right at the front of the wall in 5 meters water will lead toward the steep slope along the coastline, composition of the coral reef is mainly colonies of Stag Horn coral, coral heads and bommies rich with marine fishes, even pelagic like Sunfish often visits this site.

«Previous studies have shown a two to three year delay in reproduction after severe bleaching but at most of the reefs we are finding colonies of Acropora [branching hard coral] colonies with early signs of egg development in shallow waters, 3m to 6m deep.»

The increased water temperature will cause symbiotic bacteria in corals of the Great Barrier Reef to produce toxically high levels of oxygen, which will kill colonies of coral that are centuries or even millennia old and occupy the equivalent of Japan's landmass under water.

Symbiodinium trenchi, which normally occurs in very low numbers in the Caribbean, was able to take advantage of the warming event and become more prolific because of its apparent tolerance of high temperatures... the species appears to have saved certain colonies of coral from the damaging effects of unusually warm water.