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Coral Reefs
Photo: Coral assemblage. Photo courtesy of NOAA/Department of Commerce and Dr. James P. MCVey. There are two main types of coral: hard coral, the major reef-building species; and soft coral, such as sea whips and sea fans. Like the tropical rainforests, coral reefs are normally found in the ...
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PISCES - Florida Everglades
Florida reefs at depths less than 30 meters; they include ... (typically nitrogen and phosphorus). Back to Index O octocorals - coral type that includes sea plumes, sea whips, gorgonians, and soft corals. omnivorous - organisms that feed on both plant and animal ...
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Topic Area: Marine Park Management and TACs in Coral Harvest
TAC of 212 tonnes. The TAC includes living rock, dead coral and live hard corals, soft corals, anemones and cnidarians (Harriott, 2001). In recent years, only about 25% of ... on International Trade in Endangered Species), which currently prohibits the export of coral, promoting a solely domestic market for coral products from the Great Barrier Reef (Harriott, 2001). While it is widely ...
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Coral Reefs: Rainforests of the Sea script
It is easy to see how soft corals could be mistaken for plants. But just like hard corals, they are a collection of coral polyps. While soft corals ... North Atlantic soft coral. But generally coral cannot form reefs in cold water. Biologists believe that cold water inhibits the coral's ability to excrete the calcium carbonate necessary for reef building. Healthy coral ...
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NOAA's Reporter's Coral Reef Tip Sheet - Week 39
Dustan points out that throughout the Caribbean and Western Atlantic coral cover is decreasing, algal cover is increasing, and coral regeneration is slowing. Signs of stress are most dramatic ... of coral from sediment influence increases when algae are present. The algae also shade coral tissue causing bleaching and eventually tissue damage. Large algal colonies can also scrape the soft coral tissue ...
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Reef Relief - Coral Reef Conservation: Science Education News Photos and Information
The tiny reef-building coral "polyp" is no bigger than a pinhead. Encased in a calcareous (containing ... world wars, the coral reefs of the Keys have met their march: human beings. Virgin strands of branching corals like elkhorn and staghorn were toppled by anchors mindlessly tossed. Soft coral "polyps" were ...
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Coral Reef Health and Vitality Observations
Huge amounts of soft coral covering this bouldery bottom. Many hard coral species - Gonipora, Diploastrea, Echinopora, pocillopora, Galazea ... , the foliose pachyseris, Seriatopora, Favites and Pociliopora species. There also appeared to be soft coral bleaching, many anemones have changed colour from dull cream to vibrant purples and ...
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11ICRS: Mini-Symposium 11 - From Molecules to Moonbeams: How is Reproductive Timing Regulated in Coral Reef Organisms?
Photosensitivity in Coral Larvae Benjamin MASON*, ... SOFT CORAL LOBOPHYTUM SP. IN TUNG PING CHAU MARINE PARK, HONG KONG SAR, CHINA Chung Wing YEUNG*, Put ANG 316 Tuesday July 8, 2008 16:45 - 17:00 Reproductive Biology of Temperate Soft Corals (Alyonacea: Nephtheidae) in Korean Waters Sung-Jin HWANG*, Jun-Im SONG 316 Tuesday July 8, 2008 17:00 - 17:15 Reproductive cycle of the deep-sea coral ...
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CHAMP - Quotations - NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
ICON/CREWS Data & Info Products IMN-Integrated Monitoring Network Database Outreach CLEO-Coral Literature, Education & Outreach Coral List Server Details Subscribe Unsubscribe Interactive Tours CHAMP ICON/CREWS Stations Quotations "Every ... architects at work night and day, month after month? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering ...
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Coral reefs: a growing concern
Goreau calls "weed algae." "Coral and microscopic algae are [accustomed to] low-nutrient environment," Goreau explains. "Sewage provides excessive nutrients that bring useless, soft, fleshy fast-growing algae that doesn't provide much fish habitat. These weeds cover the limestone where coral larvae would settle." Three quarters of the world's coral ...
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