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Category: Coral
A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the "the human meteor".
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:59 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
Sometimes research comes about that really makes my whole week. This time it is a little diddy from Lindner et al. in PLoS. We could go through all the specifics of the paper...they sequenced 100 coral species from a single...
Posted by CR McClain at 11:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biodiversity
Because of my previous trumpeting many of you may believe I scoff at anything non-mollusca. Untrue! I say! Indeed, I am friend of all invertebrate. My favorite books on my shelf is Barnes and Brusca & Brusca. Just to...
Posted by CR McClain at 1:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms. A new online seminar on coral reef futures sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies provides about 100 examples in a set...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
Well, all good things must come to an end, so this is it for Coral Week. I wanted to finish things on a high note with the "naked coral" hypothesis. Does it sound like something out of an Austin Powers...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 6:39 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
There remains a cause for optimism. Shallow-water corals have weathered a host of insults over the last 18,000 years. The Atomic Age is just one in a long list. Since the Pleistocene Era, sea levels rose ~100m to the current...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 2:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
This is the fifth of five articles about the shared characteristics of shallow and deep-water corals. It's far from complete, I'm afraid. Deep corals are out of sight, but not out of reach. The commercial fishermen working above just trawled...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 10:57 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
Seawater chemistry is changing with the addition of fossil fuel CO2 to the atmosphere. This influx of CO2 is causing the world's oceans to become more acidic, which is bad news for corals and other marine organisms that use calcium carbonate to build their skeletons and protective shells.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 10:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
The biodiversity of Lophelia pertusa bioherms in the North Atlantic rivals the diversity of a shallow water tropical reef. More than 800 associated species have been documented in association.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Coral
Coral reefs are in decline around the world, and species are disappearing every day. But new species are being discovered, too. So, can society mitigate species loss by investing in species discovery?
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:07 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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