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By Ruth Kamnitzer This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, ...
Danielle Lasseigne, left, a research technician at the University of the Virgin Islands, cuts a symmetrical brain coral called Pseudodiploria strigosa near St. Thomas with a steel chisel to remove ...
Karen Neely, a coral ecologist at Nova Southeastern University, carries a piece of diseased symmetrical brain coral while on a dive to collect samples of affected reef colonies near Key West ...
for the massive starlet coral (Siderastrea siderea) and 0.47 cm yr-1 and 0.55 g cm-2 yr-1, respectively, for the symmetrical brain coral (Pseudodiploria strigosa). Skeletal density has declined at ...
Symmetrical Brain and, finally, Blushing Star coral. Over the next several nights this sequence repeats but with significantly more colonies participating, with Mountainous Star and Boulder Brain ...
Half were placed among three species— grooved brain, symmetrical brain, and ridged cactus corals, to compare them to outplants without the defender tool. “Our Coral Defender represents an ...
Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its ...
for the massive starlet coral (Siderastrea siderea) and 0.47 cm yr-1 and 0.55 g cm-2 yr-1, respectively, for the symmetrical brain coral (Pseudodiploria strigosa). Skeletal density has declined at ...