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NRDC: Sewage Pollution Threatens Public Health
In the reefs off the Florida Keys, 70 percent of elkhorn corals have been wiped out by white pox disease, which is caused by human intestinal bacteria ...
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21 June 2002
In 1996, researchers discovered irregularly shaped white lesions on elkhorn corals off Key West, Florida, that were killing the thin layer of living tissue that sheaths ... samples and picked out the four most prevalent organisms. Porter's team then exposed healthy elkhorn corals in waters in the Bahamas to each strain. Serratia marcescens, a bacterium found in the ...
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U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Addresses Caribbean Management, Planning for Year of the Reef
Federal Endangered Species Act earlier this year. Presidential ...
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Reef Relief - Coral Stress and Disease
It is attacking corals at Rock Key and Eastern Dry Rocks reefs near Key West. At these locations, it has decimated 50-80% of elkhorn corals (acropora palmata), the major reef ... Quirolo first recorded this disease in the Lower Keys where it was affecting Pillar Corals, Boulder Corals, and Star Corals and documented that it destroys tissue at an alarming rate. This may occur ...
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Reef Relief - Coral Reef Conservation: Science Education News Photos and Information
State of the Reef address. The focus in 2004 was the state of Elkhorn Corals. Below is a slideshow of the images Craig used to illustrate the address. The images ...
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Orion Grassroots Network
The survey has documented extensive damage to the shallow branching corals from diseases exacerbated by storms and hurricanes, especially to elkhorn coral, which grows only in the Caribbean. Reef Relief also ... % of the world’s coral reefs have disappeared in the last decade. Fully 80% of elkhorn corals, which grow only in the Caribbean, have been lost in the past few years, with ...
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Reef Check's The Transect Line
New larval corals settled and began to grow. Now some of these corals measure more than 1m in diameter and carpet the previously damaged ... this is because species such as branching staghorn and elkhorn corals were already decimated due to other factors in the 1980s. The remaining corals may be more resistant to being killed by bleaching ...
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Coral Reefs
Brain, star, starlet, and elkhorn coral are some examples. These coral reefs serve as nurseries for growing aquatic life. They ... common inhabitants are the zooxanthellae algae, the most prevalent type of algae. They allow hard corals to build their stony homes by assisting them in the production of calcium carbonate. Many ...
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Corals of Hawai'i
Corals of Hawai'i Corals of Hawai'i Family Pocilloporidae Pocillopora General description: branching colonies; calices crowded together on wart- ... developed; walls of terminal calices flare outward. Habitat: protected areas in shallow water. Pocillopora eydouxi - elkhorn coral Growth form: large (up to 80 cm) with thick, cylindrical, vertical branches that lack ...
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Corals of Hawai'i
Corals of Hawai'i Corals of Hawai'i Phylum Cnidaria Order Scleractina - stony corals Family Acroporidae Montipora flabellata - blue rice coral Montipora patula - ringed ... Fungia scutaria - mushroom coral Family Pocilloporidae Pocillopora damicornis - lace coral Pocillopora eydouxi - elkhorn coral Pocillopora meandrina - cauliflower coral Family Poritidae Porites compressa - finger coral Porites ...
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