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CHAMP - Coral Reef Biology - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Massive brain and star corals are the most affected by Black-band, whereas, elkhorn, staghorn, and pillar corals resist infection. Healthy corals can become infected with Black-band disease by coming in contact with an infected colony, but damaged corals are at the greatest ...
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Scientists and Divers Urgently Petition State of Florida and the  Federal Government to Save North America
Florida corals. Incredibly, these threatened Broward County reefs were unknown to scientists until very recently, ... accidents in previous dredging projects as barges, anchors, chains, pipes, and suction pumps have damaged corals, despite the best of intentions. The mitigation plan requires 600 ton capacity barges with ...
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Reef Relief - What We Do - Accomplishments
Coral Nursery at Western Sambo Reef in the Lower Keys that salvaged storm damaged corals, secured them to the ocean bottom and elevated them so that they may survive. They ... wastewater treatment. Reef Relief has begun a Coral Nursery in the Abacos to salvage storm-damaged corals, especially endangered Acropora palmate that grows only in the Caribbean. They are elevated and secured ...
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Reef Relief - Coral Reef Conservation: Science Education News Photos and Information
Coral Nursery at Western Sambo Reef in the Lower Keys that salvaged storm damaged corals, secured them to the ocean bottom and elevated them so that they may survive. They ...
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Puerto Rico Reef Ball Projects and Photos
A restoration plan has been made that will allow the damaged corals to be stabilized, propagated and replanted on prefabricated substrate within the next 90 days. Despite the desire of the DNER to complete the rescue of the damaged corals, it ...
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Selected Bibliography on Corals & Storms
Gladfelter and M. Bythell. 1993b. Chronic and catastrophic natural mortality of three common Caribbean reef corals. Coral Reefs 12: 143-152. Connell, J. H. 1972. Community interactions on marine rocky ... 47. Knowlton, N. and J. C. Lang. 1981. Evidence for delayed mortality in hurricane-damaged Jamaican staghorn corals. Nature 294: 251-252. Kobluk, D. R. and M. A. Lysenko. 1992. Storm feature ...
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A Solution for Corals in Peril
When coral reefs die, fish populations disappear; beaches and shorelines are damaged. Unprotected by breakwaters, fragile land areas become vulnerable to erosion, saltwater intrusion and destruction ... fewer than 5% of the natural reef corals survived. But on our GCRA reefs, 80% of corals not only survived, they flourished. Corals from these reefs are now recolonizing the ...
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MCBI release first report on US deep-sea corals
US deep sea corals June 8, 2006 SEATTLE - Deep sea corals provide shelter, feeding areas, and breeding grounds for many marine organisms, ... heritage of humanity", states Professor Callum Roberts of the University of York. "Recovery times for damaged deep-sea coral communities are on the order of decades to centuries, if they recover ...
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NOAA Helps National Coral Reef Institute Grow Coral in Laboratory for Transplantation to Damaged Reefs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -funded research, and will transplant them to restore damaged coral reefs. Producing juvenile corals ... system. If the corals successfully grow large enough in the outdoor system, they will be transplanted to damaged reefs. Alison Moulding, PhD, NCRI Research Scientist observing corals Photo by NCRI ...
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WWF - Impacts of global warming on corals
Amazon Impacts of global warming on corals Coral reefs bleaching to death Corals and all underwater life forms are severely ... in Indonesia. Coral reefs around the world have been severely damaged by unusually warm ocean temperatures. A WWF report shows that ... of climate change on corals has been bleaching. When the ocean warms, the oxygen content reduces, and corals become `bleached'. The ...
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