Science news articles about 'reef studies'

  • Rising Co2 'will hit coral reefs harder'

    ... The study, by a team led by Dr Ken Anthony of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the University of Queensland, published in this week's Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of ...
  • Urgent action on international coral reef crisis

    ... , Australia, 10 November 2008: Coral reef scientists and policy makers from the world's most prominent ... Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University ...
  • Reef boom beats doom

    ... settlement and growth of new corals arriving from other reefs. This study demonstrates that for fast-growing coral ... awarded to Dr McCook, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority as well as the ARC ...
  • Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs

    ... Coral Reefs. Its authors are L. J. McCook, G. R. Almany, M. L. Berumen, ... program and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. "The Coral Triangle Initiative is one of the most important ...
  • Stanford scientists find heat-tolerant coral reefs that may resist climate change

    ... Oliver then compiled dozens of coral reef studies from across the tropics and compared them ... atmosphere--another potential threat to coral reefs. This finding suggests that corals worldwide are adapting ...
  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," ...
  • Fish diet to avoid fights

    ... by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, described in ... of gobies – among the less glamorous of coral reef fish – may seem a little arcane, Dr ...
  • Fishy future written in the genes

    ... populations which are able to re-colonise regions of reef devastated by global warming and other impacts or settle ... Bay of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University (JCU ...
  • Turf wars: Sand and corals don't mix

    ... levels, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS). "We've known for a while ... sand settles – and the murky shroud that smothers the reef becomes more stable, often permanent. Then ...
  • Rare corals breed their way out of trouble

    ... scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, has raised hopes for the ability of the world' ... common Acropora corals occur mainly on reef crests, flats and slopes, whereas several ...
  • 4 years after tsunami: Corals stage comeback

    ... processes that can help us manage coral reefs in the face of climate change." While initial ... region, surveys in 2005 indicated that many of the dead reefs in the study area had actually succumbed long ...
  • Mother Nature Bounces Back After Indonesia Tsunami

    ... team, working in conjunction with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARCCoERS) along with government, community and non-government partners, has documented ...
  • Coral face 'a stormy future'

    ... or a hurricane," says lead author Dr Jennie Mallela of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and Australian National University. Using the island of Tobago in the Caribbean as their ...
  • Humans 'damaging the oceans'

    ... by Professor Mike Kingsford of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University and colleague Dr Andrew Brierley of St Andrews University, Scotland, warns ...
  • Man-made crises 'outrunning our ability to deal with them,' scientists warn

    ... up their sovereignty," adds co-author Professor Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. "We are instead proposing a much ...

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