Listening to a coral reef is like listening to an orchestra ... but Dr Scott Bachman (also at NCAR) is applying high resolution modelling to identify where they create ‘thermal refugia ...

NOAA Coral Reef Watch's global 5km-resolution satellite Coral Bleaching ... This figure shows the regions, around the globe, that experienced high levels of marine heat stress (Bleaching Alert ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

“They clearly form a significant inter-reef habitat which covers an area greater than the adjacent coral reefs.” Bioherms are formed by the calcium carbonate remains of a common green algae that has a ...

Over the long term, as coral reefs continue to build themselves up, the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

8% (235 species) of the coral reef fishes in the Coral Triangle are endemic or locally restricted species. Within the Coral Triangle, four areas have particularly high levels of endemism (Lesser Sunda ...

What is the staghorn coral? Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers of a male deer. Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and ...

Read about different competitive relationships on the reef. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops ... swim in pairs near a particular clump of coral. If threatened, they expertly wedge themselves ...