No audio available for this content. This is a challenging time for coral reefs. Although they cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support 25% of all marine creatures. Collectively, ...
Coral reefs are often framed as postcard scenery or biodiversity hotspots, but they are also working food factories that the ...
Aerial image of coral reef and coastline in the South Kona, Hawaiʻi region. Credit: ASU Global Airborne Observatory When imagining corals, the picture that comes to mind is usually a stationary one: a ...
Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.
An introduction to the structure and formation of modern reefs -- Reef minerals and mineralization -- Reef cyanobacteria -- Reef algae and foraminiferans -- Reef sponges -- Reef corals and their ...
Heidi Burdett receives funding from the Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) and Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development). Gavin Foster receives funding from European ...
Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...
Marine biologists in Venezuela are racing against the clock to stop an invasive species of soft coral that are ravaging reefs. Ana Yranzo Duque, a coral reef researcher at the Universidad Central de ...
Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared that coral reefs have become the first major environmental system on Earth to ...