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• Corals And Climate Change

  Published: August 24, 2007, 5:24 am

  Tags: Marine Conservation, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs

  of climate change impacts on corals Fully operational this month, this new lab has begun to study how corals respond to the combined stress of greenhouse warming and ocean acidification. The lab is the first to maintain corals under precisely controlled temperature and carbon dioxide conditions while exposing them to natural light

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• Scuba Diving Great Barrier Reef Australia by Neil Parris

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:20 am

  Tags: Coarl Reefs, Scuba Diving, Coral Reefs

  moved between different reefs. Video includes parts of the PADI open water certification including navigation, removing mask. Lots of fish, turtles, corals and other amazing underwater life. Fran is wearing pink fins, and Neil has odd blue and green fins. Buzz

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• Reef Check Australia: The Reef Needs You

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:11 am

  Tags: Coarl Reefs, Coral Reefs

  to the conservation of our coral reefs!!! www.reefcheckaustralia.orgDivers: get trained as a volunteerSnorkellers: Use our underwater guidesReef lovers: donate or purchase merchandise The Reef Needs You.....Special Thanks to the John Bulter Trio who generously who gifted this sound track and the Australasian Natural History Unit who donated the

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• Rare Fluorescent coral

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:53 am

  Tags: Coral Reefs

  Acropora sp. Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Buzz It!

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• Weird engine of the reef revealed

  Published: September 3, 2007, 12:57 am

  Tags: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs

  team of coral researchers has taken a major stride towards revealing the workings of the mysterious engine' that drives Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and corals the world over The science has critical importance in understanding why coral reefs bleach and die, how they respond to climate change and how that might affect humanity, they

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• Invasive algae killing Costa Rican coral reef

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:07 am

  Tags: Invasive Species, Coral Reefs, Algae

  most important coastal reefs, scientists say.The green, feather-like algae is spreading along the reefs of Culebra Bay in Costa Rica's northwestern Gulf of Papagayo, a popular scuba diving spot and home to a rare species of coral. The algae blocks the sunlight and suffocates the reefs.A tourism and construction boom along the palm

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• Cawa Tran - Invasive Algae - Part 3

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:33 am

  Tags: Algal Bloom, Coral Reefs, Algae

  Presentation on the effects of invasive algae on larval transport into coral reefs, part 3 of 3. HCRI trimester meeting, January 23, 2007. Buzz It!

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• Cawa Tran - Invasive Algae - Part 2

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:31 am

  Tags: Coral Reefs, Algae

  Presentation on the effects of invasive algae on larval transport into coral reefs, part 2 of 3. HCRI trimester meeting, January 23, 2007. Buzz It!

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• Cawa Tran - Invasive Algae - Part 1 -

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:20 am

  Tags: Coral Reefs, Algae

  Presentation on the effects of invasive algae on larval transport into coral reefs, part 1 of 3. HCRI trimester meeting, January 23, 2007. Buzz It!

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• White Pox Disease

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:48 am

  Tags: Coarl Reefs, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Coral Diseas

  Shifting Baselines Stressed Corals Symbioses Threats To Reefs Visual Biology and Mimicry The elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been a major reef-building coral in the Caribbean for the last 220,000 years. However, since the early 1970 s, the dominance of this species within the reef system has declined dramatically (McClanahan &

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• Investigating Coral Disease

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:35 am

  Tags: Coarl Reefs, Coral Reefs, Coral Diseas

  Scripps scientists are studying how changing environmental conditions are affecting coral reef habitats, and what the future may hold. Buzz It!

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• Rare British coral struck by disease

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:27 am

  Tags: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs

  1st incidence of a coldwater coral disease in a species on an international list of threatened species. Experts from the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth recorded the disease in the pink sea fan, _Eunicella verrucosa_, in a marine protected area in southwest England.The pink sea fan, which is a type of gorgonian, is protected under

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• Coral Reef - Threats and Hope

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:27 am

  Tags: Coarl Reefs, Coral Reefs

  poor waters, we showed the coral reef and other reef organism's importance to the biome. We then elaborated on some of the threats that face the coral reef species, including both human and animal activities. Finally, we showed that there is hope for the coral reef, demonstrating the species interaction between the shark and the coral, and how

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• Coral Reef with More Diversity than the Great Barrier Reef

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:25 am

  Tags: Coral Reefs

  The Great Barrier Reef does not contain the greatest variety of marine life on the planet. Explore a single reef in Indonesia that contains ... all almost as many kinds of fish as you would find in the entire Caribbean and ten times the species of Caribbean coral. (From Planet Earth, Discovery Channel Communications) Buzz It!

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• Coral reef fish harbor an unexpectedly high biodiversity of parasites

  Published: September 12, 2007, 3:12 am

  Tags: Biodiversity, Coral Reef, Fish Stock, Coral Reefs

  malabaricus, another the coral reef species. If such a level of parasite diversity prevails in all coral-reef fish, tens of thousands of parasite species are in this ecosystem waiting to be discovered. In the same way as the tropical rainforest, the coral reefs of warm seas are among the richest ecosystems of the world in terms of their

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