Lord Howe Island is an isolated high latitude reef representing the southern limit of reef-building coral distribution on the East Coast of Australia. It is located over 600 km from the mainland coast ...

Researchers compared how genetically similar populations of Pocillopora corals cope with heat stress in Panama’s Gulf of Panama and Gulf of Chiriquí, both on the Pacific coast. The team looked at the ...

One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these relationships have persisted ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2016), pp. 543-557 (15 pages) We quantified benthic community structure on shallow (10 m isobath) reefs separated by 3–130 km on four islands in the south ...

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Although corals look like a plant, they are actually animals, made up of thousands of individual polyps living together in a colony. Because of their small size, scientific observation of them has ...

Researchers used molecular genetics to differentiate among corals that look nearly identical and to understand which species best coped with thermal stress. Certain brightly colored coral species ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these ...