Coral Growth
A Method for the Geometric Analysis of Rugose Coral Growth Ridges as Paleoenvironmental Indicators in the Middle Devonian Hungry Hollow Member of Widder Formation, Michigan Basin
... ern coral growth, strongly correlated with calcification rate (Lough and Barnes, 2000; Nie et ...on coral growth, the presence of photosynthetic zooxanthellae may mask the mechanisms behind ...
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Enhancing coral growth on artificial reefs by electro deposition reef
... The prototype and test bed for concrete reef with EDR method was developed and deployed at Pulau Perhentian in April 2008. The EDR method setup uses solar panel at 12 volt and 0.4 Ampere and connected to the concrete ...
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Species-specific coral calcification responses to the extreme environment of the southern Persian Gulf
... to growth rates recorded for conspecifics in the wider Indo- ...regional growth estimates for the wider Gulf region (Lough et ...different coral species ...their growth form and life-histories ...
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Are coral clasts from a turbid near-shore reef environment a suitable material for radiocarbon analysis?
... reviews), coral reefs are typically associated with warm, clear tropical ...reef growth have been widely described and have come to represent the norm against which coral reefs are ...Rapid ...
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Summer growth rates of corals at Lord Howe Island, Australia
... Pocillopora from Pacific Panama (Manzello 2010) and Acropora palmata in the Caribbean (Bak et al. 2009). However, both these studies were conducted in locations where aragonite saturation is expected to limit ...
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Coral Reef Populations in the Caribbean: Is There a Case for Better Protection against Climate Change?
... in coral reef growth help us to understand how reef ecosystems react following major environmental disturbances due to climate change and other anthropogenic ...colonies. Coral growth rates ...
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Coral bioindicators of environmental conditions on coastal coral reefs
... the coral Montastraea annularis increased with decreasing turbidity and sedimentation, while linear extension decreased (Carricart-Ganivet and Merino 2001) although this may have been a growth response to ...
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Interactions between zooplankton feeding, photosynthesis and skeletal growth in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata
... the growth of the algal component at a higher rate than the growth of the animal ...different coral species do not display the same CSD, which ranged from ...
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Variation in growth rates of branching corals along Australia's Great Barrier Reef
... to growth rates of ...muricata growth during the 2013–2014 summer was 30% greater than all other sampling ...for growth. This trend of constrained coral growth in summer months has also ...
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Geochemical Mechanisms of Biomineralization from Analysis of Deep Sea and Laboratory Cultured Corals
... and coral body ...Our growth rates are somewhat lower than other published results, but well within the large range of published growth rates, especially given the uncertainty in conversion between ...
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Reef-building corals and coral communities of the Yemen Red Sea
... Reef growth reached sea level long ago, hence main growth is outward, being restricted in places by fine mobile ...reef growth. Dead corals were covered by prolific growth of fleshy macroalgae ...
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The sedimentary, hydrodynamic and turbidity regimes at inner shelf coral reefs, Halifax Bay, Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... The corals at Paluma Shoals experience water conditions outside the known publ;shed tolerance levels for turbidity, with coral growth aided by prevruling hydrodynamic and sedimentologica[r] ...
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To what extent do mesophotic coral ecosystems and shallow reefs share species of conservation interest?
... Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are tropical and sub‑tropical reefs between 30 m and poten‑ tially >150 m depth, the maximum for photosynthetic hard ...on coral reef depth gradients has a long ...
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The influence of coral degradation on tropical fish community structure
... both coral species, largely due to the low number of small size classes (new recruits and juveniles) associated with the ...that coral health will play a substantial role in structuring reef associated fish ...
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Coral reefs next to a major conurbation: a study of temporal change (1985−2011) in coral cover and composition in the reefs of Jakarta, Indonesia
... in coral cover or abundance when compared with mid- and offshore ...in coral cover was less pronounced than ...in coral cover across time. For example, there was a massive loss of coral at the ...
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Motorboat noise impacts parental behaviour and offspring survival in a reef fish
... We investigated the effects of repeated exposure to anthropogenic noise on male parental behaviour, and off- spring growth and survival in a coral reef fish, the spiny chromis (Acanthochromis polyacanthus). ...
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Crustacea on coral reefs: habitat associations and trophic relationships
... To determine the community structure, abundance, biomass and productivity of benthic Crustacea on a typical coral reef, I investigated 5 major microhabitats: dead coral, coral rubble, sa[r] ...
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Post-settlement growth and mortality rates of juvenile scleractinian corals in Moorea, French Polynesia versus Trunk Reef, Australia
... for coral populations (Vermeij & Sandin ...adult coral assemblages (Vermeij & Sandin 2008, Ritson- Williams et ...in growth or mortality among locations or habitats (Bak & Engel 1979, ...
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The role of sediments in epilithic algal communities on coral reefs
... The significant, incremental effects of sediment loads on epilithic algal growth and the variable nature by which sediment loads on hard, coral reef substrata are likely to persist throu[r] ...
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Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogenization of reef fish assemblages
... Branching Porites 57.13 ± 2.79 21.81 ± 1.80 43.73 ± 2.92 45.86 ± 4.39 42.08 ± 2.30 -15.01 ± 3.39 Degraded 10.46 ± 1.80 7.04 ± 0.96 59.80 ± 4.74 - 14.63 ± 1.87 4.12 ± 3.39 Massive Porites 49.37 ± 2.81 23.82 ± 1.55 47.61 ± ...
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